Russian President Vladimir Putin assured in a speech this Thursday before the Collective Security Treaty Organization that Russia produces 10 times more missiles than all of NATO combined and has threatened to hit the “decision centers” in kyiv with its missile. Oreshnik hypersonic. The Russian president has assured that the Army “is selecting objectives for the [misil] Oreshnik.
The use of this type of missile, with a range of thousands of kilometers and the capacity to carry a nuclear charge, began last week in Dnipro in response to the authorization by the United States for Ukraine to attack Russian territory with its ATACMS ballistic missiles, with a range of about 300 kilometers.
Three regions in western Ukraine have been affected by power outages following Russian attacks on the night of Wednesday to Thursday. Maksym Kozytskyi, governor of Lviv, western Ukraine, reported attacks on energy infrastructure there, and said more than half a million people in the region were without electricity. During the night, missiles were detected targeting Kharkiv, Odessa and eight other regions.
Some media have reported missile debris at two points in kyiv, although local authorities stated that air defenses intercepted all missiles fired at the capital. Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported material damage, but no casualties.
The national power grid operator, Ukrenergo, had “urgently introduced emergency power cuts,” Energy Minister German Galushchenko said. The temperature in kyiv is not expected to exceed 2ºC this Thursday.
The Russian Defense Ministry claimed to have destroyed 25 Ukrainian drones overnight in four regions, including Crimea, annexed by Moscow and seized by Russia in 2014.
According to the Ukrainian Air Force, several groups of Russian missiles were directed during the early hours of the morning against different regions of northern, central and southern Ukraine.
Energy infrastructure in the Lviv region in western Ukraine was hit during the attack, according to authorities. In neighboring Rivne, 280,000 subscribers are without power supply and there are water cuts. The attack has also affected neighboring Volhynia.
The mayor of the northeastern city of Kharkiv, Igor Terekhov, reported on his social networks that the city was attacked with several missiles during the early hours of Thursday.
Ukrainian anti-aircraft alerts have also been activated in the capital, kyiv, and the Russian Army has reached infrastructure located in the northeastern region of Sumi.
Since last March, Russia has launched massive combined attacks against the Ukrainian electricity system on a dozen occasions. As a result of these attacks, numerous Ukrainian power plants have suffered damage and the country has lost a good part of its generation and distribution capacity.
The last of these attacks took place on November 17 and forced Ukraine to reintroduce scheduled electricity cuts to save energy due to the generation deficit caused by the destruction of equipment in the attacked infrastructure.
kyiv has repeatedly warned of Russian intentions to leave Ukrainians without electricity during the coldest period of the year to demoralize the population and undermine the country’s economy.
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