The alerts sounded again this Tuesday in Ukraine, where the entire country is under the threat of a new massive Russian attack after new missile and drone launches were detected.
Russia launched in the early hours of this Tuesday a new attack con missiles and drones contra Ukraineby second day consecutive after kill at least four people and cause damage on Monday in energy infrastructure.
The entire country is now under threat of an attack with ballistic weapons, Ukraine’s air defense forces warn. Air defense systems issued alerts attack this Tuesday after detecting that Russian planes were launching missiles hypersonics. There have also been reports of attacks being launched with drones.
The day before, dozens of Russian missiles and drones killed four people, injured more than a dozen and damaged energy facilities in about attacks that the president Zelenski described as “cities“.
Moscow’s latest attacks are seen as an effort to regain control of the conflict after the Ukraine’s recent territorial gains in the Russian region of Kursk.
The bombing of more than 100 missiles and a similar number of drones It began around midnight Monday to Tuesday and continued until dawn, on what appeared to be the Russia’s biggest attack in weeks.
The Ukrainian air force said the Russian drone swarms who shot at the eastern, northern, southern and central regions of the country were followed by salvos of ballistic and cruise missiles.
“Like most previous Russian attacks, this one was just as vile, targeting critical civil infrastructure“said Zelensky, who added that most of the country was attackedfrom the Kharkiv and kyiv region to Odessa and the west.
Supply cuts in the capital and other regions
In the capital, Kievon Monday they were heard explosions. The city’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko, reported that the attack caused electricity and water cuts.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal also indicated on Monday that Russia fired drones, cruise missiles and hypersonic ballistic missiles Kinzhal against a total of 15 regions of Ukrainemore than half of the country.
“Energy infrastructure has once again become the target of Russian terrorists,” Shmyhal said, adding that the state power grid operator, Ukrenergo, has been forced to implement emergency power outages to stabilize the system.
Shmyhal urged Ukraine’s allies to provide it long range weapons and permission to use them against targets inside Russia. “To stop the barbaric bombing of Ukrainian cities, it is necessary to destroy the place from which Russian missiles are launched” Shmyhal said. “We have the support of our allies and we will definitely make Russia pay.”
The president of the United States, Joe Bidencalled the Russian attack on energy infrastructure “outrageous” and said it had “reordered priorities for U.S. air defense exports to go to Ukraine first.”
He also said that the United States was “increasing shipment of energy equipment to Ukraine to repair its systems and strengthen the resilience of the country’s energy grid.
Russia says it has achieved “all designated objectives”
The Russian Defense Ministry said the attacks used “air and sea weapons of long range precision and attack drones against critical energy infrastructure facilities that support the operation of Ukraine’s military-industrial complex. All designated objectives were achieved“.
At least four people died in the monday attacks: one in the western city of Lutsk, another in the central region of Dnipropetrovsk, one in Zhytomyr in the center of the country and one in the partially occupied region of Zaporizhia in the southeast, according to local authorities.
ADVERTISINGOthers pass they turned out wounds: one in the kyiv region surrounding the capital, five in Lutsk, three in the southern Mykolaiv region and four in the neighboring Odessa region.
They were reported blackouts and damage to civil infrastructure already the residential buildings in the Sumy region in the east, in the Mykolaiv and Odesa regions in the south and in the Rivne region in the west.
In Amountsan eastern province bordering Russia, the local administration said that 194 settlements they stayed no electricitywhile 19 others suffered a partial blackout.
The private energy company DTEK introduced emergency blackouts and said that “energy workers across the country are working 24/7 to restore power to Ukrainians’ homes.”
ADVERTISINGIn the wake of the bombing and power outages, officials across Ukraine were ordered to open “invincibility points,” places like refugio where people can charge their phones and other devices and get snacks during power outages, according to Shmyhal. These points were opened for the first time in it fall 2022when Russia attacked Ukraine’s energy infrastructure with weekly bombings.
Drone attack in Ukraine
In Russia, for its part, authorities reported a Ukrainian drone attack overnight. Four people were injured in the central Saratov region, where drones attacked residential buildings in two cities. One drone hit a residential skyscraper in the city of Saratov, and another hit a residential building in the city of Engels, where there is a military airfield that had previously been attacked, according to local official sources.
The Russian Defense Ministry said that a total of 22 Ukrainian drones were intercepted recently in more than eight provinces, including the Saratov and Yaroslavl regions in central Russia.
Russia also said its troops had repulsed Ukrainian attempts to advance on half a dozen settlements in the region. Kurskwhere Ukraine launched a military raid on August 6 that took Russia by surprise.
ADVERTISINGThe fighting in the region has raised concerns about the nuclear power plant what’s there. The head of the International Atomic Energy AgencyRafael Grossi said he would visit the plant this Tuesday.
