Individuals take shelter inside a subway station throughout a Russian navy assault, amid Russia’s assaults on Ukraine, in kyiv, Ukraine, June 1, 2024. | Photograph credit score: REUTERS
Russia attacked Ukraine’s vitality infrastructure with a large-scale drone and missile assault on Saturday, wounding at the very least 19 folks, native officers mentioned.
The Ukrainian navy reported that it had shot down 35 of 53 missiles launched at targets throughout the nation through the evening of June 1, in addition to 46 of 47 assault drones.
Officers throughout the nation reported accidents, together with in Ukraine’s western Lviv area and the central Dnipropetrovsk area.
Twelve folks, together with eight kids, had been hospitalized after an assault close to two homes the place they had been sheltering within the Kharkiv area, Governor Oleh Syniehubov mentioned.
The assaults had been a part of a sequence of sustained assaults by Russia in opposition to Ukraine’s energy grid, which have been ongoing since March.
DTEK, Ukraine’s largest personal vitality firm, mentioned two of its energy crops had been severely broken in what it mentioned was the sixth assault on the corporate’s crops in two and a half months.
In the meantime, Ukrainian Vitality Minister Herman Halushchenko mentioned in a press release on social media that vitality infrastructure within the Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kirovohrad and Ivano-Frankivsk areas had additionally been attacked.
Harm to Ukraine’s vitality infrastructure in latest weeks has pressured the war-torn nation’s leaders to implement rolling blackouts throughout the nation. With out ample air defenses to counter assaults and permit for repairs, shortages might nonetheless worsen as wants improve in late summer time and chilly winter.
In response to the assaults, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reiterated kyiv’s want for added air protection techniques from its Western allies.
“Civilians, infrastructure and vitality installations. That is what Russia is consistently at conflict in opposition to,” he mentioned in a put up Saturday on X, previously Twitter.
“Our companions know precisely what is required for this. Extra Patriot and different fashionable air protection techniques for Ukraine. Speed up and develop the supply of F-16s to Ukraine. Present our warriors with all the mandatory capabilities.” Elsewhere, 5 civilians had been killed amid Ukrainian shelling within the Russian-occupied Donetsk area, the world’s Moscow-installed chief, Denis Pushilin, mentioned. Three different folks had been injured, he mentioned.
The Russian Protection Ministry additionally mentioned it had shot down two Ukrainian drones on Saturday morning over Russia’s Belgorod area. No victims had been reported.
