Russian strikes targeting Ukraine's energy sector killed at least 11 people across the country early on Wednesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said. Flats, industrial plants and infrastructure were also damaged in the attacks, Ukrainian officials said.
“One of the key targets was our energy infrastructure. The Russians wanted to strike painfully and demonstratively,” Zelenskyy said on Telegram.
Earlier authorities said that two people were killed in the capital Kyiv, four in the northern city of Pryluki and two in the central Poltava region.
“Ukraine has once again been hit by Russian missiles throughout the night,” Dmytro Lubinets, Ukraine's parliamentary commissioner for human rights, said on the Telegram app.
“Another sleepless night, another act of terror, after which people still have to plan their working day despite everything,” he added.
Russia fired 130 drones, 48 cruise missiles and also ballistic missiles to attack Ukraine, the Ukrainian air force said. Air defence units downed 161 targets, it added on Telegram.
Russia's Defence Ministry said its forces had carried out a “massive strike” on military-industrial facilities in Kyiv and other Ukrainian regions.
It said the targets included sites where Ukrainian defence company Fire Point manufactures and stores its Flamingo cruise missiles and medium and long-range drones.
Last week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine had fired its first domestically made ballistic missile in combat, produced by Fire Point.
The attacks came after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned of a “massive strike” from Russia in a video posted to social media on Tuesday night.
Several explosions were heard in Kyiv at around 3:15 local time, Ukrainian newspaper the Kyiv Independent reported, citing local sources.
Kyiv’s Mayor Vitali Klitschko said that strikes hit the city’s southeast Darnytskyi district and the northwest Podilskyi district, where an office and warehouse building were destroyed in a fire triggered by the attack.
Russian attacks on Kharkiv, northeast Ukraine, injured two people, the region’s Governor Oleh Syniehubov said.
In Pryluki in the northern Chernihiv region, a Russian missile slammed into a five-storey residential building, regional authorities said. At least four people were killed on the spot and 20 more were wounded, while more residents could be buried under the rubble, local authorities said.
Video images showed rescuers pulling people from beneath the wreckage.
Many Kyiv residents took shelter in the city's deep underground metro stations, as warnings of the upcoming attacks were shared by Ukrainian officials and military intelligence
Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Kyiv has hit two Russian oil plants and a training ground in the Perm, Samara and Astrakhan regions.
“These are justified Ukrainian responses to all Russian attacks on our people,” Zelenskyy said on social media.
Earlier, two civilian vessels were attacked in Bulgaria’s economic zone in the Black Sea on Tuesday, authorities said. One of the ships sank and the other was significantly damaged.
Zelenskyy said a joint investigation with Bulgaria’s navy established that Russia was behind the attack.
However, Reuters reported that Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Rumen Radev said it was unclear whether the drones came from Russia or Ukraine.
A maritime security source said an initial assessment suggested the attack was probably Russian. Moscow has made no comment on the incident.
The Russian strikes come after a Ukrainian attack on Moscow and the surrounding region killed two people and sparked a blaze at a major fuel plant on Tuesday.
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