International Courant
Kiev, Ukraine — Russia focused Ukraine’s vitality infrastructure with a large-scale drone and missile assault on Saturday, wounding a minimum of 19 individuals, native officers stated.
The Ukrainian navy reported capturing down 35 of 53 missiles launched at targets throughout the nation on June 1, in addition to 46 of 47 assault drones.
Accidents have been reported by officers throughout the nation, together with in Ukraine’s western Lviv area and central Dnipropetrovsk area.
Twelve individuals, together with eight kids, have been hospitalized after a strike close to two homes the place they have been searching for shelter within the Kharkiv area, Governor Oleh Syniehubov stated.
The assaults have been a part of a collection of ongoing assaults by Russia on Ukraine’s energy grid. which has been happening since March.
Ukraine’s largest non-public vitality firm DTEK stated two of its energy vegetation have been significantly broken in what it stated was the sixth assault on the corporate’s vegetation in two and a half months.
In the meantime, Ukraine’s Vitality Minister Herman Halushchenko stated in a press release on social media that vitality infrastructure within the Zaporizhia, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kirovohrad and Ivano-Frankivsk areas have been additionally focused.
Injury to Ukraine’s vitality infrastructure in latest weeks has pressured the war-ravaged nation’s leaders to impose nationwide blackouts. With out ample air defenses to counter assaults and allow repairs, shortages may worsen as wants enhance in late summer season and the bitterly chilly winter.
In response to the assaults, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reiterated that Kiev wants further air protection programs from its Western allies.
“Residents, infrastructure and vitality provides. That is what Russia is continually at battle with,” he stated in a put up on X, previously Twitter, on Saturday.
“Our companions know precisely what is required for this. Extra Patriot and different trendy air protection programs for Ukraine. Accelerating and increasing the supply of F-16s to Ukraine. Offering our fighters with all needed capabilities.”
Elsewhere, 5 civilians have been killed in Ukrainian shelling within the Russian-occupied Donetsk area, Moscow-installed chief Denis Pushilin stated. One other three individuals have been injured, he stated.
The Russian Protection Ministry additionally stated it had shot down two Ukrainian drones over Russia’s Belgorod area on Saturday morning. No casualties have been reported.
