These attacks are part of the response to a counteroffensive that has allowed Ukrainian forces to retake thousands of square kilometers in the south and east, conquered by Russian troops after the invasion of the country on February 24.
General Sergei Surovikin, in command of Russian troops in Ukraine for ten days, ordered the preparation of an evacuation operation for civilians from Kherson (south), the main city of the homonymous region, which was formally annexed by Moscow.
“The Russian army is going to guarantee first of all the safe evacuation of the population” from there, where the Ukrainian shelling of civilian infrastructure “creates a direct threat,” Surovikin told the public channel Rossia 24.
“The situation in the area of the special military operation can be described as tense. The enemy does not give up its attempts to attack the positions of the Russian forces”, he described.
The Russian military had previously reported an advance in the eastern Kharkiv region, the first since the launch of the Ukrainian counteroffensive earlier this summer.
“Since October 10, 30% of Ukrainian plants have been destroyed, which has caused massive outages [de electricidad] throughout the country,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Twitter. “Currently, 1,162 towns are without electricity,” said emergency services spokesman Oleksandr Jorunzhyi.
In recent days, Russia has carried out some “190 bombardments with missiles, suicide drones and artillery in 16 Ukrainian regions,” he said. In that offensive, 70 people were killed and 240 wounded, he added.
Following yesterday’s attacks, Zelensky reiterated his refusal to negotiate with Russian President Vladimir Putin, arguing that Moscow’s primary goal is to “terrorize and kill civilians.”
The Russian army confirmed to have bombed energy infrastructures.
Several towns in the Zhitomir region, west of kyiv, and Dnipro (center), were disconnected from the electricity grid. “The entire country must prepare for cuts in the supply of electricity, water and heating,” he added. The Russian bombardments of the last few hours hit kyiv, Kharkiv (east), Mikolaiv (south) and the regions of Dnipro and Zhitomir (center).
Source: Ambito
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