Russia presented a wave of missiles and drones in the comforts of Ukrainian power on Wednesday, intensifying a crusade of bombings of several months at a precarious moment of war for Ukraine.
The barrage came a day after Kyiv said it had carried out its largest aerial attack of the war on Russian army factories and energy hubs hundreds of kilometers from the front line.
The Ukraine Air Force said Russia had introduced 43 cruise and ballistic missiles, as well as 74 attack drones in the dam, which basically attacked sites in western Ukraine.
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Oleksandra Komuna, an old resident of the Sknyliv Western village, was at the attack house when the lamps and plaster began to fall.
“All the doors and windows were blown out, everything was blown out. The car was damaged, and the roof was damaged. There were cracks everywhere,” she said. “It’s such a disaster.”
The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, quickly to condemn movements and requested a more powerful security assistance of allies abroad.
“Another Russian attack. It is the middle of winter, and the goal of the Russians remains the same: our electricity sector,” he wrote on social media.
The Russian Ministry of Defense confirmed in a daily briefing that its forces had carried out “high precision” strikes on energy facilities that “support the Ukrainian military-industrial complex.”
He reiterated the statement that all the designated objectives had been met.
However, the Ukraine Air Force said he had killed 30 missiles and 47 drones, while Ukrainian prime minister Denys Shmygal said the Russian attack “failed. “
Hours after the blockade, Zelenskiy called on the West to use about US$250 billion of unallocated frozen Russian assets to buy weapons from Kyiv. Speaking at a press convention in Warsaw with Polish President Andrzej Duda.
“Ukraine will take this money, allocate a large amount for domestic production and for the import of exactly those types of weapons that Ukraine does not have,” he said.
Last week, the EU paid Kiev the first 3 billion euros ($3. 1 billion) of a loan backed through frozen Russian assets.
On Wednesday, the U. S. State Department announced new sanctions on “more than 150 and related entities in Russia’s defense industry and supporting its military-industrial base. “
Meanwhile, Marco Rubio, elected president Donald Trump, said the new administration would seek “daring diplomacy” to end the war.
“There will have to be concessions made by the Russian Federation, but also by the Ukrainians,” he said.
Moscow continued a months-long bombing crusade targeting Ukrainian energy infrastructure, saying the attacks targeted services to Kyiv’s soldiers.
The Russian military had accused Kyiv of using US and UK-supplied missiles for one of the strikes the previous day and promised it would “not go unanswered.”
On Wednesday evening in Russia’s Voronezh Oblast bordering Ukraine several drones “sparked a fire at an oil depot,” Voronezh Governor Alexander Gusev said on Telegram, as videos posted by witnesses showed a substantial blaze.
Drones and missile attacks from kyiv and Moscow occur at a complicated time for Ukraine in the extensive front line.
In various key moments in the regions of northern Járkov and East of Donetsk, Russian forces have achieved stable progress by exploiting their benefits in labor and resources.
Based on those gains, the Russian Defense Ministry said Wednesday that its forces had captured the village of Ucranka in the Donetsk trade region that the Kremlin said was Russia’s component.
Despite the war that has been happening for only 3 years, there are still cooperation spaces between Moscow and kyiv, which announced on Wednesday that they had exchanged 25 prisoners of war each.