Moscow has been targeting Ukraine's critical infrastructure for days. Now the Kremlin is once again boasting about attacks on the country's power grid. All targeted objects were hit, according to the Defense Ministry.
According to its own statements, the Russian military once again fired at the energy infrastructure and positions of the army during new attacks on Ukraine. The power plants were attacked from the air with high-precision weapons, said the spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry, Igor Konashenkov.
"All targeted objects were hit," Konashenkov said in a situation report. There were attacks in the Kharkiv, Donetsk and Cherson regions. Ukraine has been complaining about increased shelling from the Russian side for days. According to the government in Kyiv, around 40 percent of the energy infrastructure has now been damaged by missiles and drones. Many people are without power because of the Russian attacks. Kyiv had therefore already called for electricity savings.
According to Konashenkov, Ukrainian forces continued to advance in the Kherson region, which was largely occupied by Russian troops. The Ukrainian military suffered heavy blows during Russian tank attacks, and the units in Kiev subsequently disbanded, the Russian officer claimed. The Russian positions would be held. Information from the war zones is difficult to verify.
Ukraine has been waging a counter-offensive in the Cherson region for weeks and has already liberated dozens of towns there. Because of the advance of the Ukrainian army, the Russian occupiers had called on the people in the region's capital, Cherson, to flee. The situation in the region occupied by Russia shortly after the start of the war around eight months ago is considered extremely tense.
Russia annexed the Cherson, Donetsk, Luhansk and Zaporizhia regions in violation of international law. On Wednesday, Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin implemented the long-standing martial law there under Russian law.
