Russia renews major missile attacks on Ukraine's civilian infrastructure | DW News

Russia unleashed a massive missile barrage on Thursday targeting infrastructure across cities in Ukraine, Ukrainian officials said early Thursday. Air raid sirens sounded across the country, including the capital, Kyiv. The wave of attacks is the first of its kind in three weeks. Ukrainian officials said that at least five people had been killed in the wave of attacks, four of which were killed in the western Lviv region and one in the eastern Dnipropetrovsk region. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said, "Two people were injured" in the Svyatoshynsky district of the capital following the strikes. Officials added that 40% of households were without heating as electricity infrastructure had been hit. The governor of the northeastern Kharkiv region, Oleh Syniehubov, said there had been more than 15 strikes on Ukraine's second-largest city of Kharkiv. "Objects of critical infrastructure are again in the crosshairs," Syniehubov said in a Telegram post. In the southern Odesa region, Governor Maksym Marchenk said energy facilities and residential buildings had been hit in strikes. "Fortunately, there were no casualties," he said but added that "power supply restrictions" were in place.

The attacks were reported to have struck a wide arc of other targets. Explosions were also reported in the cities of Chernihiv, Dnieper, Lutsk, and Rivne, as well as the western Lviv region. Moscow has been launching massive missile attacks against Ukrainian civilian infrastructure, in particular targeting energy infrastructure and often plunging whole cities into darkness, since last October. The barrages were initially weekly but eventually became more intermittent, leading to speculation that Moscow may be saving up ordnance. The last major wave was on February 16.

In the wake of Russia's wave of airstrikes, the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant — the largest in Europe — has been left without power, Ukraine's nuclear energy operator Energoatom said. "The last line of communication between the occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and the Ukrainian power system was cut off as a result of rocket attacks," they wrote in a statement. The plant is now running on diesel generators, with enough fuel for 10 days. The fifth and sixth reactors have also been shut down, Energeoatom said. "The countdown has begun. If it is impossible to renew the external power supply of the station during this time, an accident with radiation consequences for the whole world may occur," the operator said. Zaporizhzhia is occupied by Russian forces and Thursday marks the sixth time since the occupation began that the facility has lost power. Previous incidents have triggered a site inspection by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Russia's own nuclear energy operator Rosenergoatom confirmed that power had been cut, but said that it was Ukraine that had cut the power.

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[SukhoyBoy]

But Russia was out of ammo back in April 2022??

[mylesraymond]

Russia went from shovels to hypersonic missiles overnight? That’s quite a leap in technology.

[PropagandasaurusRex]

That's a lot of washing machine chips and scrap metal.

[jonsekander]

Its amazing that Russians modified shovels to missiles just overnight,

[firstsecond]

"Rudly awakened" is an understatement

[timkiwi]

Time for world leaders to grow some balls and put a stop to this madness

[rickgolder]

Damn looks like they are out of shovels now, and are now finally switching again to missiles.

[ediekimo]

Enough with "which side are you on?" Qns. It's time to end this damn war

[jojostaana]

Everytime ukraine attempt to attack moscow, there is always a huge counterstrike from russia..

[duncanstewart]

A massive strike of 89 missiles and drones. Kyiv and Kharkiv and Odesa as well as smaller towns. 46 inbound tracks destroyed reported . 5 killed near power infrastructure being targeted again. Three weeks since the last major attacks.

[anythinginteresting]

Civilian infrastructure... Mmmh, rich especially how Y'll never called out the actual civilian bombing in the Donbass for 8 yrs

[xabisombilini]

Damn those Russians can throw shovels really, really fast 8km/s 💪 💪 💪

[Jtmark]

Oh shovels😮😮 I didn’t know you could do such damage 😅😅😅

[Knnn]

But but but this can’t be possible… Russia’s running out of missiles

[trumpforever]

These things happen when Russian shovels are thrown at hypersonic speeds by Wagner's convict mercenaries.

[martinbabl]

Failed to mention that a weapons production facility was also destroyed.

[adventureswithlils]

How is this possible

They ran out missiles a year ago and resorted to washing machines etc.

[bigkdog]

Last I heard the Russians were fighting with shovels and were down to their last missile?😂

[vatoloco]

But sky news was saying that russian soldiers are now fighting with shovels because they are running out of ammo

[RichardsWorld]

Is the the Russian "shock and awe" like the Americans did in Iraq?