Kyiv: A missile strike severely damaged a key electrical installation in Ukraine’s capital region, the country’s grid operator said Saturday as the Russian military struggled to cut power in remote populated spaces while guarding against Ukrainian counterattacks in the occupied regions.
The governor of the Kyiv region, Oleksiy Kuleba, said the attack on the unidentified facility did not kill or injure anyone. Electricity transmission company Ukrenergo said repair crews were working to repair the emergency service, but warned citizens of more blackouts imaginable.
After a truck bomb exploded a week ago, which breached the bridge connecting Russia to the Crimean peninsula, the Kremlin introduced what are believed to be its largest coordinated missile strikes in Ukraine since the country’s initial attack last February.
This week’s large-scale retaliatory strikes, which included Iran’s use of self-destructive explosive drones, killed dozens. The movements affected residential buildings as well as civilian infrastructure such as power plants in Kyiv, Lviv in western Ukraine and other cities that had noticed little movement in recent months.
Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy head of the Ukrainian president’s office, on Saturday suggested to citizens of the Kyiv region and citizens of 3 neighboring regions to reduce their energy consumption during the evening rush hour.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Moscow sees no need for more large strikes, but that its military will carry out targeted strikes. He said that of the 29 targets the Russian military planned in this week’s attacks, seven were not broken and eliminated.
The Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based think tank, interpreted Putin’s comments as intended to counter complaints from pro-war Russian bloggers who “welcomed the resumption of movements in Ukrainian cities, but warned that a brief crusade would be ineffective. “”
Russian diplomat Konstantin Vorontsov told an assembly of the United Nations General Assembly’s weapons committee on Friday that Russia would supply its best friend Belarus with Iskander-M short-range missiles that could bring a nuclear or traditional warhead and modernize a component from Belarus. -25 floor attack jets to bring nuclear weapons.
Vorontsov explained the resolution by mentioning Moscow’s fears about the option of deploying US nuclear weapons in Poland, near the borders of Belarus and Russia.
In accordance with the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, Russia has not recently intended to install nuclear warheads in Belarusian weapons systems or to move nuclear warheads on the territory of Belarus.
Spaces in southern Ukraine that Putin designated as Russian territory last month remained amid fighting on Saturday. Ukrainian forces have continued a crusade to retake the predominantly Russian-occupied Kherson region.
Kirill Stremousov, deputy head of the region’s Moscow-based administration, reminded citizens that they could evacuate to Crimea and cities in southwestern Russia as Ukrainian forces try to advance toward the regional capital.
After Kremlin-backed leaders in the region on Thursday called on civilians to evacuate for protection and give Russian troops more maneuverability, Moscow offered a flexible accommodation to citizens who agreed to leave.
Ukrainian troops tried to advance south along the banks of the Dnieper but gained ground, according to Stremusov.
“The defense lines worked and the situation remained under the full control of the Russian military,” he wrote on his messaging app channel.
Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov, a spokesman for Russia’s Defense Ministry, said the army had destroyed five crossings on the Inhulets River, the direction Ukrainian fighters could take to advance toward the Kherson region.
Konashenkov claimed that Russian troops also blocked Ukrainian attempts to break through Russian defenses near Lyman, a town in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region that the Ukrainians recaptured two weeks ago.
In the Zaporizhzhia region bordering Kherson, Governor Oleksandr Starukh had carried out movements with Iranian-made suicide drones and S-300 missiles.
North and east of Kherson, Russian shelling killed two civilians in the Dnipropetrovsk region, Governor Valentyn Resnichenko said. and a shipping facility.
Fighting near the nuclear power plant, Europe’s largest, was a constant fear during the nearly eight-month-old war. It will eventually overheat and cause catastrophic radiation leakage.
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