Kyiv, Ukraine – Russia has targeted Ukraine’s energy infrastructure in a bombing of large-scale missiles and drones overnight, hours on Friday, a few hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that the United States ended at the end of the United States The 3 year war will take place next week.
Ukraine has undergone an attack on missile and massive drone, wrote the Minister of Energy, Herman Haushchenko, on Facebook. At least 10 people, including one child, were injured, the authorities said.
“Russia is trying to injure ordinary Ukrainians by hitting energy and gas production facilities, without abandoning its objective of leaving us without light or heat, and causing ordinary citizens the greatest evil,” wrote Haushchenko.
Russia has repeatedly Targeted Ukraine electrical network During the war. The attacks have exhausted the production capacity of electricity and disrupted critical heating and water supply. Ukrainian officials accused Russia of “winter armaments” in order to erode civil morale.
Russia pulled 67 air, land and sea missiles and launched 194 strike and lure drones, said the Ukraine air force. Their main objective was Ukraine’s natural gas extraction facilities, he said.
For the first time, Ukraine has deployed mirage-2,000 French war aircraft a month ago to help repel the attack, according to the Air Force. Ukraine also has F-16 fighter planes provided by the West to shoot Russian missiles.
The Ukrainian defenses fell 34 missiles and 100 drones, said Air Force, while up to 10 missiles have not reached their targets and 86 drones were lost from radars, probably blocked by electronic war.
Air defense systems applied by the West are crucial for Ukraine’s fight, but help in the United States is uncertain under the American president Donald Trump, who says he is determined to end the war and A American military assistance interrupted For Kyiv as a way to put pressure on Zelenskyy to negotiate.
In his night speech, Zelenskyy said Thursday that he would go to Saudi Arabia on Monday to meet the Crown Prince of the country, and his team would remain for interviews with US officials.
Zelenskyy welcomed a European Union plan Strengthen the continent’s defenses. He expressed hope that some of the new expenses could be used to strengthen the Defense industry of Ukraine.
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