Salvoes of Russian fire on Thursday morning over Ukraine caused “significant damage” to the national power grid, already largely damaged after multiple attacks by the Moscow army since October, the head of the operator Ukrenergo announced.
“Unfortunately, due to significant damage to the grid, it is difficult for us to supply electricity to the Kharkiv, Kyiv, Odessa, Mykolaiv, Kherson and Lviv regions,” Volodymyr Kudrytsky lamented on Ukrainian television. “The enemy has not achieved his objective: the system is working” and “a part (already) has been restored,” he noted, however.
A man killed in the Kharkiv region
Hours earlier, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Valery Zalouzhny, had indicated that 54 of the 69 Russian missiles launched against Ukraine had been shot down, “protecting key elements of our economic infrastructure,” according to Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov. The 15 warheads that Ukrainian forces were unable to intercept succeeded in disrupting the national electrical system.
This energy balance is further weighed down by a human component: in the Kharkiv region, local authorities have mourned the death of “a 50-year-old man” after the shooting, as well as his hospitalization.
Source: BFM TV
