Large-scale offensive causes power outages in several cities and disruption of water supply and metro in Kiev
A week away from the festivities that excite the little ones the most, there will be no respite from Christmas in Ukraine. Only more brutality on the part of Russia, which on Friday launched its seventh full-scale offensive against the energy infrastructure of Kiev and the country’s main cities. Moscow “fired from the Caspian and Black Sea regions” a total of 76 missiles -72 cruise and 4 aviation-, of which the Ukrainian army managed to shoot down 60, the commander-in-chief of the armed forces Valerii Zaluzhnyi stated, who stressed that “missile terror and the enemy’s daring attempts to breach our air defenses will not force us to lay down our arms.”
The massive attack caused power cuts across the country, as well as the interruption of water supplies in the capital, where temperatures fluctuated between one and three degrees below zero yesterday. Moscow launched “40 missiles” at Kiev in “one of the largest missile strikes” since the invasion began, its mayor, Vitali Klitchko, said. The subway’s “damage to the power system” forced it to suspend service all day. The population took advantage of the situation to use the subway as a refuge. Explosions were recorded in Desnian, Dnipro and Holosiiv, the councilor warned, advising his compatriots “not to leave the shelters. The attacks continue.”
In the south, in Krivoy Rog – where Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was born – at least two civilians were killed after a rocket hit a residential building. The shelling in this area also injured five people, including two children. “Everyone is in the hospital,” emphasized the regional governor, Valentin Reznichenko. The volley of projectiles left several cities in the east and south of the country without electricity, such as Kremenchuk, Poltava or Kharkov, Ukraine’s second largest city. Given the situation, Germany announced the delivery of 100 million euros “to restore energy infrastructure”.
The invaders attacked the city of Kherson, recently liberated by Ukrainian forces, leaving one dead and three wounded. They also hit the part of Donetsk that Kiev controls. In this case, two youths aged 14 and 17 were killed in the city of Toretsk, bringing the total number of minors who have died in the past ten months to 450.
On the other hand, the pro-Russian authorities in Lugansk denounced a Ukrainian attack using the ‘HIMARS’ multiple launch missile system against Lantratovka, which left eight dead and more than twenty wounded.
After the latest Russian offensives, the French government spoke out with the intention of entering into talks with Putin. “To a large extent, they are war crimes against civilian infrastructure, even against civilians. This is not the nature of the special operation he had launched, which was a territorial conquest,” warned French President Emmanuel Macron, who stated that “the most urgent issue is to continue calling for a ceasefire in the bombings and attacks with drones”.
Source: La Verdad
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