Russia has unleashed a massive missile barrage on cities across Ukraine early this Thursday morning, targeting energy infrastructure facilities in the first attack on such a scale in three weeks.
Air raid alerts went off across 13 regions.
Numerous explosions have been reported in the city of Kharkiv. According to Suspilne media, part of the city is left without electricity following the attack.
Russian forces targeted energy infrastructure in Odesa Oblast,regional Governor Maksym Marchenko reported. A few private residences were also damaged in the region.
Explosions have been reported in several cities, Kyiv, Poltava, Lviv, Vinnytsia, Ivano-Frankivsk,with major explosions reported in the capital
Six people, including two children – a 10-year-old boy and an 11-year-old girl, were wounded in Nikopol.
The Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (the biggest in Europe) lost all connections to Ukraine’s power grid due to Russian shelling. The plant is in blackout mode
Russia attacked Kyiv with drones and “almost all types” of cruise missiles during a mass attack across Ukraine, Serhii Popko, head of the Kyiv Oblast military administration, said.
Popko said that the city’s air defense shot down the cruise missiles and drones but that a Russian nuclear-capable hypersonic aero-ballistic air-to-surface Kinzhal missile hit an infrastructure site.
