Rescuers of the State Emergency Service work to place out a fireplace in a non-public home after a drone strike in Kharkiv, on December 25, 2024, amid the Russian invasion in Ukraine.
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Russia attacked Ukraine’s power system and cities in its jap area with cruise and ballistic missiles on Wednesday morning, Ukraine’s power minister and native officers stated.
At the very least six individuals had been wounded in a missile assault on Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine on Wednesday morning, regional governor Oleh Syniehubov stated.
Ukrainian air forces stated Kharkiv was attacked by ballistic missiles and Syniehubov stated on the Telegram messaging app that there have been “damages to civilian non-residential infrastructure”.
Individually, Dnipropetrovsk Governor Serhiy Lysak stated on Telegram: “Because the morning, the Russian military has been massively attacking the Dnipro area. It’s making an attempt to destroy the area’s energy system.”
Ukraine’s power minister German Galushchenko stated on Fb that Russia “is massively attacking the ability sector” and that the transmission system operator had imposed restrictions on electrical energy provide to minimise the affect.
Russia has intensified its assaults on the Ukrainian power sector since spring 2024, damaging virtually half of its producing capability and inflicting hours-long blackouts all through the nation.
Earlier on Wednesday, the Ukrainian navy launched a national air alert in response to Russian cruise missile launches.
The nation’s largest personal power firm DTEK stated its producing amenities had been attacked in the course of the strike, inflicting “critical damages” to energy gear.
“This 12 months, it’s the thirteenth large assault on the Ukrainian power sector and the tenth large assault on the corporate’s power amenities,” DTEK stated on Telegram.
Ukrainian servicemen of the thirty third brigade function a Leopard battle tank within the path of Kurahove, Ukraine as Russia-Ukraine conflict continues on December 19, 2024.
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Native authorities and the air pressure reported missile overflights within the jap, central, southern and western areas.
Throughout a earlier large missile assault on Nov. 17, Russia launched 120 missiles and 90 drones, killing at the very least seven individuals and inflicting extreme harm to the ability system.
DTEK imposed emergency energy cuts of as much as eight hours throughout giant elements of Ukraine on the time.
