Last night, the Russian Army launched a massive attack against Ukraine that targeted energy facilities and caused electricity and gas outages in the regions of kyiv (north), Zaporizhzhia (southeast) and Dnipropetrovsk (center), as reported by Ukrainian authorities. With the arrival of cold weather, Moscow redoubles its offensive on these critical infrastructures, as it has always done in this war of invasion, which is approaching four years of duration. .
As reported on its Facebook account by the public gas company of Zaporizhia, the damage caused by the attack on gas infrastructure in the regional capital has forced it to temporarily limit the supply of natural gas.
Meanwhile, in kyiv the metro operates “with changes” to its usual program due to the alterations in supply caused by the Russian bombing. , “a part of the capital” is without power due to the damage caused by the Russian attack on the capital’s energy infrastructure.
The governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region has also reported Russian attacks on the energy system in the capital, Dnipro, and in the cities of Kamiansk and Krivi Rig. In Dnipropetrovsk, the Russians have used drones and missiles in the attack.
The Foreign Ministry also reported the death of a child in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia as a result of a parallel attack.
The damage
The mayor of kyiv, Vitali Klichkó, has reported more than a dozen injuries in the capital. “Eight of them are hospitalized. Four receive outpatient care,” he added. At the moment no fatalities have been reported. The attack has seriously affected critical infrastructure and in the Ukrainian capital “there are problems with the water supply” and “the left bank of the city is without electricity supply.”
The problems in the electrical network, however, have spread in the capital region and two districts in the eastern zone, Brovari and Borispil, are home to “about 28,000 families” that have been left without supply, as reported through its own channel on the platform by the regional military administration.
The entity has notified that there are already technicians “working to restore the centralized electricity supply” and has also announced that “insurgency points are being deployed in the settlements”, each of them “with everything necessary to help the population”, while generators are available to make up for the lack of electricity.
Russia has systematically attacked Ukrainian gas and electricity infrastructure in recent days. The Ukrainian president, , has stated that Ukraine will respond to these Russian attacks and has ordered to increase Ukrainian capabilities to hit the enemy at long range.
“Worse than Hamas”
The Ukrainian Foreign Minister, Andri Sibiga, after the massive Russian attack, declared that “Russia is worse than Hamas.” “Even Hamas has accepted a ceasefire and peace efforts. On the contrary, Moscow continues the senseless war it started, a war that it cannot and will not win,” he said in
The comparison with Hamas was already used last night by President Volodymyr Zelensky in his daily address to the nation. “Even Hamas is capable of reaching agreements, Putin is not,” Zelensky said. The Islamist group has accepted the US ceasefire offer amid the Israeli siege of Gaza.
Sibiga highlighted that this new massive attack occurs exactly three years after the first major Russian bombing against the Ukrainian electrical system, which took place on October 10, 2022, the first year of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
