Kyiv (Brussels Morning Newspaper) – On Wednesday, officials reported that Russian missile and drone strikes in Ukraine resulted in six fatalities, including two children, and caused nationwide power outages.
Timur Tkachenko, head of Kyiv’s military administration, reported on Telegram that debris from downed weapons scattered across the Ukrainian capital, causing fires in half of its districts.
“Ukraine long ago agreed to the U.S. proposal for a ceasefire, while Moscow is doing everything to keep the killing going,” Andriy Yermak, Zelenskiy’s chief of staff, stated this in a Telegram post following the latest Russian attacks. “This means collective actions against Putin are currently insufficient, and we must all do more together to make him stop killing our people.”
What damage did Russian strikes cause in Kyiv districts?
Ukraine’s emergency service reported that two people were killed in the Kyiv attack, and four others, including two children, died following Russian strikes on the nearby region. Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported that ten people were rescued from a fire in a high-rise building in Kyiv’s Dniprovskyi district, including a child among the five who were hospitalised across the city.
Officials reported that fires also occurred in the districts of Desnianskyi, Darnytskyi, and Pecherskyi, where the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra monastery is located.
How did Ukraine’s energy infrastructure endure overnight assaults?
Ukrainian officials stated that the attacks continued throughout most of the night and into early Wednesday, beginning with ballistic missiles and then shifting to drone strikes.
“All night the enemy struck the country’s energy infrastructure,”
Energy Minister Svitlana Hrynchuk said.
The ministry also reported that most regions in Ukraine experienced emergency power outages due to the Russian attack on energy infrastructure, including Kyiv and its surrounding areas. In central Poltava, Russian attacks damaged oil and gas facilities in the Myrhorod district, according to the regional governor.
How severe were the civilian and infrastructure losses in similar attacks?
In the southeastern frontline region of Zaporizhzhia, still under ongoing strikes and shelling by Russian forces, 13 people sustained injuries in overnight attacks, according to regional governor Ivan Fedorov on Wednesday. Since launching a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Russia has consistently targeted Ukrainian energy facilities, asserting they are legitimate military objectives in the conflict.
Morever, a Tuesday attack on Ukraine resulted in four deaths and caused hundreds of thousands to lose power, with many also losing water. Kyiv described this as Moscow’s latest strike in a campaign to weaken Ukraine’s energy infrastructure ahead of winter.
