In the night a rain of Russian missiles fell on theUkraine and the sirens sounded again and again throughout the cities. The attacks were particularly strong and widespread, Kiev speaks of 81 Russian missiles (6 hypersonic), 34 of which were shot down, launched in a series of raids against its "critical infrastructure". The balance for now is 9 victims: three dead a kherson, five y Lviv and one in Dnipro, while residential buildings and infrastructure were affected a Kiev, Kharkiv e Odessa. In the capital, 40% of residents were left without heating, with an outside temperature of 4 degrees. Even the nuclear power plant of Zaporizhzhia he is out of electricity after the attack. As the arm wrestling continues on Bakhmut. The Ukrainians are resisting and trying to ensure that the connecting roads between the city center and the rear remain passable for supplies, ammunition and reinforcements to be sent. Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Zelensky reiterated in an interview with CNN that he does not intend to confront Russian President Putin personally: "he doesn't keep his word". It's last news about the Russia-Ukraine war.
Russia-Ukraine war, news: tonight's attack
“It was a difficult night. We had a massive rocket attack across the country. Kiev, Kirovohrad, Dnipro, Odessa, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Zhytomyr and Vinnytsia regions were attacked. The Ukrainian president said this on Telegram commenting on the attack. “Residential buildings and essential infrastructure have been attacked. Unfortunately, there are wounded and dead. My condolences to the families,” Zelensky added.
"High-precision long-range air-, sea- and land-launched weapons, including Kinzhal hypersonic missiles, have hit critical targets of military infrastructure, military-industrial complex enterprises and the energy facilities that power them" in Ukraine. The Russian Defense Ministry claimed responsibility for the attack, confirming that they were also used Kinzhal hypersonic missiles. And meanwhile the war takes on more and more the appearance of a conflict of attrition, fearing once again the nuclear risk.
Aiea: "In Zaporizhzhia we are playing with fire"
Of concern again is the Ukrainian nuclear power plant Zaporizhzhia, which was cut off from the electricity grid after the Russian attack. The site is currently running on 20 emergency diesel generators, according to the Ukrainian energy company Energoatom. The Minister of Energy of Ukraine, Herman Halushchenko, said that “as a result of the bombing, the last line that fed the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant was damaged. The Russians are putting the world on the brink of a nuclear catastrophe. And this happens the day after the negotiations with the United Nations on the demilitarization of the plant”.
Stressing the need for urgent action to ensure site safety is the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (AiaeaRaphael Grossi. “Once again the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant is running on emergency diesel, the last line of defence. This is the sixth time, let me repeat the sixth, that the plant has had to operate in this emergency mode. Let me remind you that this is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe”, Grossi underlined before the board of governors of the United Nations body in Vienna. “What are we doing to prevent this from happening? We are the IAEA and we have to worry about nuclear safety ”, he added that always referring to the risks of Russian attacks on the plant he explained that“ every time it is like playing with fire. But if we allow this situation to spread, one day our luck will run out. I ask everyone in this room today and elsewhere - concluded the head of the IAEA - we must commit ourselves to guaranteeing the safety and protection of the plant. And we must engage Now. What we need is action”.
