2024-04-27 10:47:24
Russia has hit Ukraine with new massive missile attacks. The air force in Kiev reported on Saturday morning that 21 of a total of 34 rockets and cruise missiles of various types had been shot down. The attacks came from the air, the Black Sea and the ground, it said. The energy company DTEK said a total of four thermal power plants were seriously damaged. People were also injured.
“You will receive the help you need,” the company said. Workers are currently trying to repair the damage. There had previously been an air alert across the country. According to the Energy Ministry in Kiev, the air strikes primarily targeted energy facilities. Attacks were reported in the Dnipropetrovsk, Lviv (formerly Lemberg) and Ivano-Frankivsk regions. According to authorities, two energy facilities were hit in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
The authorities also reported several explosions once more in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, which has been repeatedly shelled and is not far from the Russian border. It was said that the grounds of a hospital were also hit by Russian shelling. There was damage to the buildings due to the pressure wave, and some windows were broken. A patient was injured in her bed. Authorities also released images of the damage.
Russia, which has been bringing death and destruction to the neighboring country with its war of aggression once morest Ukraine for more than two years, has also been the target of attacks once more. Russian air defense said that 66 drones had been intercepted and destroyed by the Ukrainian side in the Krasnodar region. The local authorities said that a fire also damaged facilities at an oil processing company in the region. Nobody was injured. The Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, which was annexed by Russia in 2014, once once more reported the shooting down of two drones. The information might not initially be verified.
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