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Wave of Russian attacks target Ukraine civilians, power grid | Russia-Ukraine war News

Russia made a wave missile attack Ukrainian cities, killing at least five people and causing new disruptions in power supplies, especially in the Kyiv and Kharkiv regions, officials said.

“Unfortunately, there have been blows to the energy infrastructure,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address on Saturday. “In this regard, the most difficult situation is in the Kharkov region and the Kyiv region.”

German Energy Minister Galushchenko said an emergency power outage was in place in “most areas” of Ukraine on Saturday due to the attacks. “Today, the enemy attacked the country’s energy production facilities and electricity grid again. There were attacks in Kharkiv, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Zaporizhia, Vinnytsia and Kyiv regions,” Galushchenko wrote on Facebook.

“Due to the shelling, an emergency power outage has been in place in most areas,” the minister said.

In the city of Dnipro, in central eastern Ukraine, 20 people were rescued from an apartment complex where an entire part of the building had turned to rubble, smoke rising into the sky, the deputy chief of staff to the president of Ukraine said. know.

“Tragedy. I went to the site. … We will go through the rubble all night,” said Borys Filatov, mayor of the missile-building city on the Dnieper River.

The regional governor said five people were killed and at least 60 people, including 12 children, were also injured in the attack and many were still trapped under the rubble.

The image shows firefighters putting out fires around the wreckage of several cars in Dnipro. A large part of the apartment complex was missing. The exterior of the rest of the building was badly damaged. The wounded were carried on stretchers.

UK pledges to supply tanks to Ukraine

In his nightly speech, Zelenskyy reiterated that Russian attacks on civilian targets can only be stopped if Ukraine’s Western partners provide the necessary weapons.

“What does this need? The kind of weapon that our partners have in stock and our warriors have come to expect. The whole world knows what and how to stop those who are spreading death,” he said.

Saturday’s attack comes as Western powers consider sending battle tanks to Kiev and ahead of a meeting of Ukraine’s allies at Ramstein in Germany next Friday, where governments will announce pledges their latest military support.

On Saturday, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pledged supply tanks and artillery systems to Kyiv.

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Saturday’s series of attacks followed a smaller missile attack on critical infrastructure in the capital Kyiv and the eastern city of Kharkiv.

DTEK, the largest private electricity company, has introduced emergency power outages in some areas.

The Ukrainian Air Force said it shot down 25 of the 38 Russian missiles.

The missiles hit critical infrastructure in the eastern Kharkiv region and the western Lviv region, officials said. Officials said the Kharkiv region was completely without power and there could be a disruption to electricity and water supplies in Lviv.

Moldova’s Interior Ministry said rocket debris was found in the north of the country near the border with Ukraine following air strikes.

Saturday’s attacks come as Ukrainian and Russian forces battle for control Soledara small salt mining town in eastern Ukraine that for days has been the focus of a relentless Russian assault.

Ukraine insists that its forces are fighting for control of Soledar but acknowledges the situation is difficult, street fighting is raging and Russian forces are advancing from different directions.

Russia said on Friday that its forces had taken control of the town with a pre-war population of 10,000, which would be a small but psychologically significant step forward for the forces. Russian forces suffered many months of defeat on the battlefield.

Al Jazeera could not immediately verify the situation in Soledar.

Russia has been targeting Ukraine’s energy infrastructure with missiles and drones since October, causing power outages and disruptions to central heating and domestic water.



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