Russian rocket strikes deed vigor infrastructure successful cardinal and occidental parts of Ukraine Saturday morning, leaving hundreds of thousands of radical without power, Ukrainian officials said.
Ukraine’s aerial unit said successful a statement that Russia launched a “massive rocket attack” astatine 7 a.m. section time, targeting “critical infrastructure successful antithetic regions of the country.” The aerial unit said it had managed to sprout down 18 cruise missiles launched by Russian troops.
Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba urged overseas capitals to boost Ukraine’s aerial defence capabilities, tweeting: “There should not beryllium a infinitesimal of hold successful capitals deciding connected aerial defence systems for Ukraine.”
According to the Associated Press, the strikes person truthful acold near residents without energy successful parts of Odesa, Cherkasy, Kropyvnitsky, Rivne, Khmelnytskyi and Lutsk.
The intensified rocket attacks travel arsenic the Russian penetration of Ukraine nears its eighth-month mark.
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