Kyiv, UKRAINE (AP) – Russia attacked Ukraine’s weak power grid again on Wednesday with multiple strikes, with many areas reporting blackouts from east to west, authorities in the capital Kyiv said. He said three people were killed in the strike. Two-story building. The new barrage adds further difficulty to a country already suffering from repeated strikes on its power grid, and Russia appears eager to weaponize the onset of winter with air strikes on key infrastructure in Ukraine.
Kiev , Ukraine (AP) – Several Ukrainian cities, including parts of Kyiv, and neighboring Moldova experienced power outages after a renewed strike that hit Ukrainian infrastructure on Wednesday, officials said. Several areas reported back-to-back attacks, indicating a wave of strikes. In some areas, authorities reported strikes on critical infrastructure. For weeks, Russia has been attacking power grids and other installations with missiles and explosive drones, apparently aimed at weaponizing the cold and darkness of winter.
Kyiv, UKRAINE (AP) – Multiple explosions were heard in Kyiv on Wednesday, with authorities reporting strikes in residential areas and critical infrastructure facilities in and around the Ukrainian capital. It follows a series of relentless Russian attacks on power and other facilities. Mayor Vitali Klitschko wrote on his Telegram: City officials said one person was injured. Kyiv regional governor Oleksiy Kleva said strikes were reported around the capital, affecting residential areas and critical infrastructure facilities. In a telegram message, the mayor said the entire city had lost power. Russia has repeatedly bombed Ukraine’s war capital and power plants across the country in recent weeks, causing widespread power outages. The latest explosion came hours after Ukrainian authorities announced that an overnight missile strike destroyed the maternity ward of a hospital in southern Ukraine, killing a two-day-old baby. A baby’s mother and a doctor were dragged from the rubble after a night strike in Vilnyansk near the city of Zaporizhia. The region’s governor said the missiles were made in Russia. The strike is increasing the brutal toll that hospitals and other medical facilities, and their patients and staff, are undergoing as Russia enters its 10th month of aggression this week. Rescue teams are working on the ground,” wrote regional governor Oleksandr Staruk via the messaging app Telegram.
Vilnyansk is located in the northern part of the Ukrainian-occupied Zaporizhia region, about 500 kilometers southeast of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. The medical staff’s efforts have been complicated by a series of Russian attacks on Ukraine’s infrastructure in recent weeks, which authorities say has caused extensive damage to the power grid. The situation is even worse in the southern city of Kherson, where power and water were cut off almost two weeks ago when the Russians withdrew almost two weeks ago after months of occupation. He has only one portable ultrasound machine and he always carries it with him, ”said Volodymyr Malishchuk, head of surgery at the city’s children’s hospital. Marishchuk said his three children injured in the Russian attack were hospitalized this week. In the northeastern city of Kupyansk, Russian artillery fire killed two civilians and wounded two others on Wednesday morning, local officials said. A 55-year-old woman and a 68-year-old man died after a nine-story house and a clinic was damaged, Kharkiv governor Oleh Syniehubov said in a telegram.
