А number of power stations were hit after Russia launched a fresh wave of attacks across Ukraine. Meanwhile, Ukrainian lawmakers passed a bill to overhaul military conscription.
Russia launched a fresh wave of attacks across Ukraine overnight, including in Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia, Odesa, Kharkiv and Lviv, Ukrainian authorities said.
“Overnight, Russia fired more than 40 missiles and 40 drones at Ukraine,” President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on social media.
“Some missiles and ‘Shahed’ drones were successfully shot down. Unfortunately, only a part of them.”
There were no immediate reports of casualties.
The head of the Kyiv administration, Ruslan Kravchenko, said an air raid alert lasted for five hours in the city.
“Tonight the area was massively attacked with kamikaze drones and missiles,” he said.
The strikes completely destroyed the Trypilska power station outside Kyiv, the Interfax-Ukraine news agency reported.
Ukraine’s Interior Minister Igor Klymenko said hundreds of rescuers had been deployed across the country after the “massive shelling.”
“For several hours, the Russian military attacked five regions of Ukraine, hitting critical infrastructure,” he said.
Energy company DTEK said two of its power stations were hit, while authorities in Lviv said a gas distribution facility and an electric substation had also been attacked.
Zelenskyy called on Ukraine’s Western partners not to “turn a blind eye” and to provide more air defense systems.
Source: Dw
