Russia records damage from missile strikes against Ukraine
Only three regions of the country were unaffected by the missile barrages on Monday and Tuesday, a table shows
Russian State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin shared a map, revealing the scale of Russian missile strikes on Ukrainian military targets and infrastructure earlier this week.
that of Moscow « response to the terrorist acts of the kyiv regime » saw 70 installations of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure affected, which led to the loss of 50% of its production capacity in the country, Volodin wrote on Telegram on Thursday.
The strike map he published shows that only three Ukrainian regions – Chernigov in the north, and Volyn and Transcarpathia in the west – were not hit by the strikes.
« If the terrorist attacks continue, the response will be even harsher, » he added. warned the speaker of the lower house of the Russian parliament.
All the organizers of the Ukrainian attacks must be found, and « those who resist will be destroyed », Volodin added.
Moscow fired dozens of missiles at targets in Ukraine on Monday and Tuesday, calling them retaliation for kyiv’s sabotage plots, targeting crucial Russian facilities including the Kursk nuclear power plant, the TurkStream gas pipeline and the Crimean Bridge.
Following Saturday’s bombing of the key bridge connecting Crimea to the rest of Russia, President Vladimir Putin said kyiv « terrorist tactics » can no longer remain unanswered.
Several parts of Ukraine, including its capital kyiv, reported power outages and other problems with utilities after the Russian bombardment. National electricity grid operator Ukrenergo was forced to ask consumers to turn off appliances during evening peak hours and ordered power cuts in some areas to reduce the load.
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On Wednesday, Ukrainian Energy Minister German Galushchenko told CNN about 30% of the country’s energy infrastructure had been damaged after two consecutive days of Russian strikes.
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