Ukraine announces power restrictions after 'massive' Russian missile, drone attack

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17 November 2024 at 5:10 am·1-min read

Russia on Sunday launched relentless aerial bombardment on Ukraine's energy production and distribution facilities, firing 120 missiles and nearly 100 drones across the country, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said. Following the attack, Ukraine announced it would be introducing nationwide emergency power restrictions on Monday.

Ukraine said it would introduce nationwide emergency power restrictions Monday after a "massive" Russian attack further damaged its already fragile energy grid ahead of a much-feared winter, with nine civilians also killed across the country on Sunday.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Moscow launched 120 missiles and almost 100 drones, targeting Kyiv as well as southern, central and far-western corners of the country.

Civilians were killed in the Mykolaiv, Lviv, Kherson, Dnipropetrovsk and Odesa regions in what officials in the capital called one of the biggest barrages in the almost three-year Russian invasion.

"A hellish night," the spokesman for Ukraine's air force, Yuriy Ignat, said on social media, adding that Kyiv had downed "144 targets".

(AFP)

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