Ukrainian officials reported on Saturday that Russia had fired a barrage of 100 missiles and drones against Ukraine overnight, targeting energy infrastructure all around the nation.
Throughout the two-year conflict, Russia has attacked Ukraine’s power plants from the air hundreds of times, causing substantial damage and electricity shortages as Ukraine’s beleaguered air defenses try to fend off the waves of missiles and drones.
The air force claimed to have shot down all but one of the enemy’s 47 attack drones and 53 different types of missiles, of which it shot down 35.
The DTEK operator stated that the attack had damaged two thermal power plants, but he did not say which ones.
For the Ukrainian energy industry, it was yet another incredibly challenging evening. We lost two of our thermal power plants to enemy strikes. According to a Telegram statement from the business, “The equipment was seriously damaged.” Since mid-March, it was the sixth significant attack on DTEK thermal power stations, it continued.
Russia has targeted locations in five districts, ranging from close to the eastern frontlines to Ukraine’s west, which borders the EU: Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Kirovograd, Ivano-Frankivsk, and Zaporizhzhia, according to German Galushchenko, Ukraine’s Minister of Energy.
The ministry issued a warning, stating that the attacks would probably result in power restrictions on Saturday night.
President Volodymyr Zelensky reiterated his demand for additional air defense systems and claimed that Moscow was attempting to “exploit” a lack of “determination” among Ukraine’s important Western allies.
In a social media post, he stated, “Russia’s main goal is to normalize terror, to exploit the lack of sufficient air defense and determination of Ukraine’s partners.”
“This is a test of the free world’s resolve and humanity. The world would descend into even more instability and anarchy unless we pass this exam as a group, he continued.
