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Kiev: Russia launched massive missile and drone attacks targeting Ukraine’s power grid on Thursday night. Ukrainian officials said on Friday that these attacks came hours after President Volodymyr Zelensky’s statement that talks with the US to end the three-year-long war with Russia would be held next week. Ukraine’s Power Minister Herman Halushenko wrote on Facebook wall, “Ukraine has been attacked by missiles and drones on a large scale.” The authority said that at least 10 people, including a child, were injured in these attacks.
Power infrastructure continuously targeted
Halushenko further said, “Russia is trying to harm the common people by attacking power and gas production facilities. It is not abandoning its goal of depriving us of electricity and gas, and is causing the most harm to ordinary citizens.” Let us tell you that during the war, Russia has continuously targeted Ukraine’s power infrastructure. The attacks have also reduced Ukraine’s power generation capacity and affected water lines as well as heating systems needed during the winter season. Ukrainian officials have accused Russia of “using winter as a weapon” in an effort to demoralize citizens.
Kremlin (Russia’s President’s Office) spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday that the power grid is a legitimate target in war, as it is “linked to Ukraine’s military industrial complex and weapons production.”
Russia shot down 39 Ukrainian drones
Meanwhile, the Russian Defense Ministry claimed that Russian air defense systems shot down 39 Ukrainian drones overnight. Ukraine’s largest private gas production company ‘DTEK’ said that the bombing on Thursday night was Russia’s sixth attack on its installations in the last two and a half weeks.
Russia fired 67 missiles
According to the Ukrainian Air Force, Russia fired a total of 67 missiles from air, land and sea on Thursday night and dropped bombs from 194 drone planes. Further said that Russia’s first target was Ukraine’s natural gas extraction facilities. According to the Air Force, Ukraine deployed French Mirage-2000 fighter jets for the first time to respond to the attack. These planes were supplied only last month. Let us tell you that Ukraine also has F-16 fighter planes given by Western countries to deal with Russian missiles.
34 missiles and 100 drones were shot down – Ukrainian Air Force
The Ukrainian Air Force claimed that the Ukrainian Defense Force shot down 34 missiles and 100 drones of Russia, while 10 missiles could not reach their target and 86 drones disappeared from the radar, which were possibly jammed through electronic war. Russia’s latest attack on Ukraine came after Zelensky’s night speech on Thursday. In which the Ukrainian President said that he would travel to Saudi Arabia on Monday to meet the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia and his team would stay there for talks with US officials.
