2024-04-11 13:28:00
Russia launched more than 40 missiles and 40 drones against Ukraine overnight from Wednesday to Thursday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said. It targeted “essential infrastructure”.
“During the night, Russia fired more than 40 missiles and 40 drones at Ukraine,” the head of state said on the social network X. “Some Shahed missiles and drones were successfully shot down. Unfortunately , only part of them,” he said.
“Russian terrorists have once again targeted essential infrastructure,” he lamented. According to the Ukrainian head of state, infrastructures were notably targeted in kyiv, Zaporizhzhia and Odessa (south) and Lviv (west), near the Polish border.
Volodymyr Zelensky reiterated his demand for Ukraine’s Western partners not to “turn a blind eye” to the situation and to provide more air defense systems to Ukraine, which is in its third year of war.
“Massive attack”
To carry out its “massive attack” against Ukraine, Moscow used cruise missiles as well as Iranian-made Shahed drones according to the daily report of the Ukrainian general staff published on Facebook. Ukraine was able to destroy 37 of the 40 drones launched against it, the army said.
Ukrainian Energy Minister German Galushchenko indicated on the Telegram social network that these attacks targeted “production facilities and transmission systems” in the regions of kyiv, Kharkiv (north-east), Zaporizhia and Lviv.
In the Kiev region, “a critical infrastructure installation” was targeted, said the head of the local military administration, Ruslan Kravchenko, without providing further information.
Two thermal power plants of Ukrainian energy supplier DTEK were attacked, the company reported on Telegram on Thursday morning, without specifying their locations.
Ukrainian Interior Minister Igor Klymenko said hundreds of rescuers were operating across the country after “massive shelling” which lasted “several hours”.
Kharkiv still targeted
According to him, Moscow fired “more than ten missiles” at Kharkiv, depriving part of Ukraine’s second city of electricity. “Fortunately, according to operational data, today’s attack caused no deaths or injuries,” he said. According to the mayor of Kharkiv, “problems with energy supply are possible.”
In the Zaporizhzhia region, Governor Ivan Fedorov reported “explosions” early Thursday, and the head of the Lviv region, Maksym Kozytsky, said Russia had attacked a gas distribution facility and an electrical substation with “cruise missiles of different classes and drones”.
“Fires broke out. They were quickly extinguished by the firefighters,” he said on social networks. Shortly before 8:00 a.m. local time, no air alerts were in effect on Ukrainian territory, previously placed entirely on alert.
Ukrainian drones destroyed
For several weeks, Russia has been bombing Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, particularly around Kharkiv, leading to large-scale power cuts. Moscow, for its part, declared that it had destroyed 12 Ukrainian drones overnight, including three in the east of the Republic of Mordovia. Moscow said others were destroyed in the Kursk, Tambov, Belgorod, Bryansk and Lipetsk regions.
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