Russia has carried out multiple strikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, intensifying the military operations in the eastern region and mounting fresh drone and missile assaults on the country’s capital, Kyiv.
On Thursday and early Friday, Russian forces fired more than 300 drones and 37 missiles targeting Ukraine and causing a blackout, leaving thousands of citizens in the dark.
Russia is pushing the offensive to pressure Ukraine for negotiations after Donald Trump once again retracted from supplying Tomahawk missiles.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is expected to meet Donald Trump in Washington later in the day.
On Thursday, Russian forces carried out attacks on gas facilities in eastern Ukraine, creating outages in eight regions with a large-scale bombing campaign. Russia is trying to cripple Ukraine’s energy resources, especially as winter is approaching. While striking critical infrastructure is considered a war crime under international law, both sides have targeted civilian infrastructure at will.
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Since invading Ukraine in 2022, Moscow has attacked Ukrainian power infrastructure each winter, forcing Kyiv to impose emergency blackouts and import energy from abroad.
“There are hits and destruction in several regions at once. The operation of several critically important facilities has been halted,” the CEO of gas company Naftogaz, Sergii Koretskyi, said in a statement.
“This autumn, the Russians use every single day to strike at our energy infrastructure,” Zelenskyy said. The International Criminal Court last year issued arrest warrants for two top Russian army officials over the attacks on Ukraine’s energy facilities, saying they constitute a “war crime” and had inflicted “excessive” harm to civilians.
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