Russia launched 120 missiles and 90 drones against energy infrastructure in Ukraine

Russia launched 120 missiles and 90 drones against energy infrastructure in Ukraine in a large-scale attack. The information was revealed by President Volodymyr Zelensky.

According to the Ukrainian leader, Russia used several types of drones, including Shaheds, cruise missiles, ballistic missiles and aircraft-launched ballistic missiles. Ukrainian defense forces shot down 140 air targets, he said in a statement on Telegram, cited by the Associated Press.

The combined drone and missile attack was the most powerful in the last three months, according to the head of the kyiv Military Administration, Serhii Popko.

“The enemy’s target was our energy infrastructures throughout Ukraine. Unfortunately, there is damage to objects caused by impacts and falling debris. In Mykolaiv, as a result of a drone attack, two people were killed and six others were injured, including two children,” he said.

The Ukrainian energy operator DTEK had already announced today that there had been “emergency power outages” in the kyiv region and in two regions in the east of the country, following a Russian attack on the country’s energy network.

In addition to emergency power outages in the capital region, the Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk regions were affected, the company wrote on the Telegram social network.

Previously, Energy Minister German Galushchenko announced that a “massive attack by Russia on the electrical system” was underway, according to the AFP agency.

Russian attacks have disrupted Ukraine’s energy production capacity since Moscow’s invasion in February 2022, causing repeated emergency power outages and rolling blackouts across the country.

Ukrainian authorities have periodically urged Western allies to bolster the country’s air defenses to counter attacks and allow for repairs.

According to local reports, explosions were heard throughout Ukraine today, including the capital kyiv, the important port of Odessa in the south of the country, as well as in the western and central regions.