Ukraine’s weakened energy network was the target this Sunday of a “massive” Russian bombing that, according to local authorities, left at least nine dead and around twenty injured throughout the country. “A massive combined attack targeted all regions of Ukraine” and “our energy infrastructure,” declared the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, stating that Russia launched 120 missiles y 90 drones.
“It was a hellish night,” said Ukrainian Air Force spokesman Yuri Ignat, according to which 144 aircraft were shot down, reports France Presse. The Milei Government accuses Cristina Fernández of falsifying residence to increase pension
The massive bombing has had serious consequences for the civilian population. The country will apply “restriction measures” on Monday to electricity consumption throughout its territory, the Ministry of Energy announced on Sunday. “Tomorrow, November 18all regions will be forced to apply consumption restriction measures”, due to the “damage caused to electrical installations during the massive attack with missiles and drones,” the ministry wrote in the social networks.
The head of Ukrainian diplomacy, Andrii Sibigadescribed the attack as “one of the older” launched by Moscow. The Russian Defense Ministry stated that it achieved all its objectives in a massive attack against “essential energy infrastructure supporting the Ukrainian military-industrial complex.”
Russia has already destroyed half of Ukraine’s energy capacity with its drone and missile attacks in its nearly three-year offensive, according to kyiv. The Ukrainian energy operator, DTEK, reported “serious damage” to some of its thermal plants. After recording power outages, the power began to return on Sunday at noon in several regions of the country.
According to DTEK, this is the eighth great attack against its power plants so far this year. Ukraine asks its Western partners for help rebuild the electrical grida project that requires large investments, and more air defense equipment to counter Russian bombing. These bombings, exacerbated by Ukraine’s difficulties on the front in the face of the advance of the Russian Army in the east, take place in an uncertain global geopolitical context since the election of Donald Trump to the White House
The wave of attacks left at least nine dead and about twenty injured. Two employees of the public railway company Ukrzaliznytsia were killed in the bombing of a depot, and three were injured, the company announced. One person was killed and two wounded in a missile attack on the western Lviv region, local authorities reported. In the south, two people were killed in Odessa and one in Kherson, and a drone attack killed two people and injured seven, including two children, in Mykolaiv, according to the emergency service.
Injuries were reported in several cities, including the capital kyiv, Zaporizhzhia in the south, and Dnipro in eastern Ukraine. On the Russian side, a local journalist, Yulia Kuznetsovawas killed by a Ukrainian drone attack in the Kursk region, according to Governor Alexei Smirnov.
Fighting in Kursk
This region was attacked in early August by the Ukrainian army, which still controls a small part of it. In the Russian region of Belgorod, also bordering Ukraine, a civilian was killed by a Ukrainian drone attack, according to local authorities.
Poland announced on Sunday that it had deployed fighter jets and mobilized “all available forces and resources” to protect your territory during the Russian night attack on Ukraine. He ukrainian chancellor declared that these attacks are “the true response” of Russian President Vladimir Putin to the leaders “who called or visited him” recently.
kyiv expressed its annoyance on Friday over a phone call between German Prime Minister Olaf Scholz and Putin, the first since December 2022. Highly criticized for the phone conversation, Scholz reiterated on Sunday his support for Ukraine and assured that “no decision” will be made without it. Talking to Putin is equivalent to “opening Pandora’s box,” the Ukrainian president said. Before that, Putin welcomed several world leaders at a BRICS summit.
Donald Trump’s recent victory in the US presidential elections has reopened the debate on possible negotiations with Moscow, and kyiv fears that it will be forced accept concessions. Trump has repeatedly criticized his country’s aid to Ukraine and has claimed to be able to resolve the conflict in “24 hours,” without saying how.
On Saturday, Zelensky, who had long ruled out this option, stated that he wanted to end the war in his country. in 2025 by “diplomatic means“However, the Russian and Ukrainian positions remain opposite: kyiv rules out ceding the territories occupied by the Russian army, but Moscow imposes it as a condition.
