Russia carried out a \u201cmassive\u201d missile attack on Ukrainian energy\u00a0infrastructure\u00a0overnight into Wednesday, according to local authorities, in the biggest aerial onslaught by Russian forces for weeks. <\/p>\n
Russia used 76 air attack weapons in the assault, including 55 missiles and 21 drones launched from Russia and Russian controlled areas, according to Ukrainian Air Force Commander Mykola Oleshchuk. At least 59 weapons were destroyed overnight, he added. <\/p>\n
The attacks targeted power generation and transmission facilities in Ukraine\u2019s Poltava, Kirovohrad, Zaporizhzhia, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk and Vinnytsia regions, the country\u2019s Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko posted <\/strong>on Telegram. <\/p>\n \u201cThe enemy wants to deprive us of the ability to generate and transmit electricity in sufficient quantities. Saving electricity is a contribution of each of us to the victory,\u201d Halushchenko said. <\/p>\n At least three people were injured, including a woman and a man with multiple limb injuries and shrapnel wounds taken to the hospital in the Kyiv region, and an 8-year-old child in the Kirovohrad region, local authorities said. <\/p>\n Moscow has stepped up efforts to paralyze Ukraine\u2019s energy system in the past month, as Kyiv\u2019s troops struggle to hold positions on key frontlines particularly in the east. <\/p>\n The five-month\u00a0wait before US Congress approved $61 billion in military aid to Kyiv may have caused lasting damage that will be felt on the frontlines for months to come. <\/p>\n Russian forces have used the \u201cartillery drought\u201d hampering Ukraine\u2019s defenses since December to push forward\u00a0on the\u00a0eastern front near Avdiivka,\u00a0making the largest advance since the early months of the war, and ahead of an anticipated\u00a0Russian offensive in late May. <\/p>\n The latest Russian attack hit three thermal power plants run by Ukraine\u2019s biggest power company, DTEK. It was the fifth time its\u00a0infrastructure\u00a0was targeted in a month and a half. Ukraine\u2019s state-owned grid operator, Ukrenergo, also reported \u201cdamage to generation facilities.\u201d <\/p>\n Two critical energy\u00a0infrastructure\u00a0facilities in the Lviv region were attacked, one in the Chervonohrad district and another in the Stryi district, regional military official, Maksym Kozytskyi, said. <\/p>\n Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that \u201call necessary services are already working to mitigate the consequences of Russian terror.\u201d <\/p>\n \u201cThe entire world must understand who is who. The world must not give a chance to new Nazism,\u201d he added in a post on X. <\/p>\n The attacks come as Ukraine marks the Day of Remembrance and Victory over Nazism in World War II on Wednesday. <\/p>\n\n Russia carried out a \u201cmassive\u201d missile attack on Ukrainian energy\u00a0infrastructure\u00a0overnight into Wednesday, according to local authorities, in the biggest aerial onslaught by Russian forces for weeks. Russia used 76 air attack weapons in the assault, including 55 missiles and 21 drones launched from Russia and Russian controlled areas, according to Ukrainian Air Force Commander Mykola <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18836,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18835","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}