Moscow/Leopolis, Jan 14 (EFE).- Russia today massively attacked in two waves the civil and energy infrastructure in kyiv and other Ukrainian regions a few days after the appointment of a new head of the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine, Valeri Gerasimov, and after a break of several days in the bombardments aerial.
The attacks resumed in the morning in the capital and the kyiv region, where explosions were heard before the anti-aircraft alarms were activated, in Zaporizhia and in Mykolaiv.
Already in the afternoon the map of the alerts was dyed red for two hours throughout the country.
According to the Ukrainian Air Force, Russia launched 38 missiles of different types from the Black and Caspian seas and Russian fighters, of which 25 were destroyed by anti-aircraft defense.
TRAGEDY WITH DEAD IN THE CENTER OF THE COUNTRY
The city of Dnipro, in the central Dnipropetrovsk region, suffered the most tragic impact from Russian missiles.
The shelling hit a nine-story residential building, according to the deputy head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, who stressed that there are people under the rubble of the entrance that completely collapsed.
The head of the Regional Military Administration, Valentin Reznichenko, pointed out that there are at least five dead and almost 60 wounded, including 12 children.
The Prime Minister of Ukraine, Denys Shmyhal, stated that there are “dozens” of victims”, while the country’s president, Volodimir Zelensky, stressed that “the world must stop this evil”, referring to “Russian terror”.
“We will find everyone involved in this terror” and “everyone will take responsibility, the utmost responsibility,” he stressed.
Tymoshenko said emergency services managed to rescue 20 people, including three children.
The rescue teams, made up of 230 people and 67 units, try to save people with cranes while they signal their location with flashlights and mobiles.
“The entire area is completely without power and disconnected from life support systems,” he noted.
Also in the Dnipropetrovsk region, a missile damaged residential buildings in Krivoy Rog.
“One person died, one was injured,” Reznichenko said.
RUSSIA HIT INFRASTRUCTURE
Shmyhal pointed out that there were also impacts on critical infrastructure facilities in various regions, including Odessa.
In the eastern Kharkiv province, two missiles hit important infrastructure and there are emergency blackouts, Governor Oleg Synegubov said after the second attack of the day.
Already in the morning there were attacks against key infrastructures and industrial facilities in the city of the same name and the region.
Maksym Kozytskyi, head of the Lviv Regional Administration, also reported an impact on essential infrastructure in the western Ukraine province and possible interruptions in electricity and water supply.
The operator of the electricity transmission system in Ukraine, Ukrenergo, indicated that Russia today launched the twelfth massive attack against the Ukrainian energy sector and that there were hits in five regions: kyiv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Vinnytsia, Lviv and Kharkiv.
POWER OUTAGES IN SEVERAL REGIONS
According to Energy Minister Herman Galushchenko, “because of the shelling, emergency shutdowns are introduced in most regions. The next few days will be difficult », he warned on Facebook.
“The energy deficit in the electrical system has increased significantly,” Ukrenergo stressed, the situation being “difficult” in the Kharkov and Lviv provinces.
The private electricity generator DTEK explained for its part that Russia “fired at two thermal power plants, one of them stopped the production of electrical energy.”
The second wave of attacks of the day did not cause damage to the critical infrastructure of the capital, “thanks to the effective work of the Air Defense Forces,” said the head of the City’s Military Administration, Serhiy Popko.
kyiv, AGAIN TARGET OF RUSSIA
In the morning, missiles did hit the kyiv region.
According to the kyiv Region Military Administration, the missiles hit essential infrastructure and in the town of Kopyliv a residential building was attacked, with no casualties.
The governor, Oleksiy Kuleba, claimed that 28 residential buildings were damaged.
In the capital, a warehouse caught fire due to falling missile fragments in the Holosiv district, and cars were damaged in the Darnytsia district.
The fact that the explosions were heard in the city before the anti-aircraft alerts were activated was explained by Air Force spokesman Yuri Ignat, arguing that Russia probably fired S-300 anti-aircraft or ballistic missiles from the north. which the Ukrainian system fails to “spot and shoot down”, unlike cruise missiles. EFE
