He said a total of 15 energy targets were damaged and claimed that 70 missiles were shot down. In the capital, the situation is very difficult,” said a senior official, Kyrylo Tymoshenko. “Most of the hits were recorded in the center and in the north of the country. Zelenskyy warned that more strikes were possible and urged people to stay safe and seek shelter. Ukrainian Railways announced nationwide train delays. Almost half of the Kyiv region lost power, authorities said. At least a dozen regions reported power outages, affecting cities that together have millions of people.

More than a dozen regions - among them Lviv in the west, Kharkiv in the northeast and others in between - reported strikes or efforts by their air defenses to shoot missiles down. But the stunning scale of Tuesday’s strikes spoke volumes and hinted at anger in the Kremlin.īy striking targets in the late afternoon, not long before dusk began to fall, the Russian military forced rescue workers to labor in the dark and gave repair crews scant time to assess the damage by daylight. Russian President Vladimir Putin has not commented on the retreat from Kherson since his troops pulled out in the face of a Ukrainian offensive. The power grid was already battered by previous attacks that destroyed an estimated 40% of the country’s energy infrastructure. The aerial assault, which resulted in at least one death in a residential building in the capital, Kyiv, followed days of euphoria in Ukraine sparked by one of its biggest military successes - the retaking last week of the southern city of Kherson. He accused Russia of “trying to cause maximum damage to our energy system on the eve of winter.” The minister, Herman Haluschenko, described the missile strikes as “another attempt at terrorist revenge” after military and diplomatic setbacks for the Kremlin. His energy minister said the attack was “the most massive” bombardment of power facilities in the nearly 9-month-old Russian invasion, striking both power generation and transmission systems. We will survive everything,” the president vowed. Zelenskyy said Russia fired at least 85 missiles, most of them aimed at the country’s power facilities, and blacked out many cities. It reported massive power outages after the strikes knocked out a key power line that supplies the small nation, an official said.

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