Russia launched another large-scale attack on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, causing emergency power outages across the country, the state grid operator said on Saturday.
The “massive airstrike” involved 400 drones and around 40 missiles and targeted substations, power grid, generation facilities and distribution facilities, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said.
Posting on X, Zelenskiy urged international pressure on Moscow over the strikes on Ukraine. “Every day, Russia could choose real diplomacy, but it chooses new strike It is crucial that everyone who supports the trilateral negotiations respond to this. Moscow must be deprived of the ability to use the cold as leverage against Ukraine,” Zelenskiy stated.
Ukraine’s Energy Minister Denys Shmygal said Russia hit the Burshtynska and Dobrotvirska power plants in western Ukraine overnight, prompting Kyiv to request emergency assistance from neighbouring Poland. “Russian criminals carried out another massive attack on Ukraine’s energy facilities. The attack continues,” Shmyhal said on Telegram. He stressed that energy workers were ready to start repair works as soon as the security situation allows.
Russia launches relentless air strikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, knocking out electricity and heating across the country in below zero temperatures in winter months for the fourth months since it launched its war of invasion in February 2022.
Saturday’s attacks on energy grid comes on the heels of trilateral meeting between Ukraine, Russia and the US in Abu Dhabi to end the nearly four-year-war in Ukraine. The two rounds of talks did not end in any breakthrough, with Russia continuing to push for Ukraine’s withdrawal from eastern industrial Donbas region.
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