According to comprehensive foreign media reports, Russia launched a large-scale missile attack on various parts of Ukraine while the people were asleep on the evening of the 9th, killing at least nine civilians and cutting off power. Kiev pointed out that the attack included six Khan hypersonic cruise missiles, one of Russia’s most prized weapons.
The Russian military said the attack was a “massive retaliation” in response to what Kiev called a “terrorist act” in western Russia’s Bryansk region last week, adding that it used a hypersonic missile known as the Kinzhal. Kiev dismissed claims by Moscow as provocation that Ukrainian nationalists stormed into Buyansk oblast and killed two civilians.
Russia also said it would discuss the extension of the food agreement with the United Nations on the 13th, making it questionable whether the crucial agreement brokered by the United Nations can be extended. The food deal helps ease the global food crisis sparked by Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia fired a total of 81 missiles, killing five in the western state of Lviv and one in the eastern city of Dnipro. “The occupiers only terrorize civilians, that’s all they do, but it doesn’t help them. They can’t escape being responsible for everything they’ve done,” he said. Infrastructure and residential buildings.
At least three people were killed in another shelling at a bus station in the southern city of Kherson, Ukrainian officials said.
Moscow authorities say such attacks are intended to cripple Ukraine’s combat capabilities. The Kiev authorities said the airstrikes had no military purpose and were aimed at injuring and intimidating civilians, a war crime. Washington called the missile attack “cruel and unjustified.”
Zelensky said the attack was “another attempt by a terrorist state to confront civilization”, adding that Ukraine would not be defeated. “Our country and our people will never be bound. Neither missiles nor brutality will help Russia achieve this goal,” he said in his daily national address.
Russian missile strikes also left Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city in the northeast, without power, water or heating, local officials said. The attack also cut power to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in the Russian-occupied zone, forcing the plant to use diesel generators, though power was later restored.
The outage at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant prompted a stark warning from the head of the United Nations’ nuclear energy agency that “the next luck may run out,” and Zelensky called on Western countries to impose sanctions on Russia’s atomic industry.
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