Russian missiles pound Ukrainian energy facilities and defence plant - Reuters

KYIV, Nov 17 (Reuters) - Russia pounded Ukrainian vigor facilities and a immense rocket booster mill connected Thursday successful a caller question of rocket strikes that Ukrainian officials denounced arsenic terrorism.

Explosions echoed though cities including the confederate larboard of Odesa, the superior Kyiv, the cardinal metropolis of Dnipro and the southeastern portion of Zaporizhzhia wherever officials said 2 radical were killed.

Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said targets successful the 2nd question of dense rocket strikes this week included the immense Pivdenmash defence works successful Dnipro. He gave nary details of immoderate harm but authorities vigor institution Naftogaz said state accumulation facilities successful eastbound Ukraine had been damaged oregon destroyed.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy posted video footage, seemingly changeable from a car cam, showing a driver's travel done Dnipro being interrupted by a immense blast up that sent flames and achromatic fume pouring into the sky.

"No substance what the terrorists want, nary substance what they effort to achieve, we indispensable get done this wintertime and beryllium adjacent stronger successful the outpouring than we are now, adjacent much acceptable for the liberation of our full territory than we are now," helium said.

At slightest 15 radical were wounded successful Dnipro, 3 were wounded successful the northeastern metropolis of Kharkiv and astatine slightest 1 was injured successful Odesa, section officials said. Ukrainian officials besides reported fierce warring successful parts of eastern Ukraine.

The politician of Melitopol successful southeastern Ukraine said the metropolis had nary heating. Other areas were already taxable to rolling blackouts to prevention vigor aft harm from aerial strikes connected Tuesday.

The enforcement manager of Ukraine's largest backstage vigor provider, DTEK, said semipermanent outages could past for days successful immoderate regions.

"Unfortunately, determination whitethorn beryllium precise fewer hours during which determination volition beryllium electricity," Interfax Ukraine quality bureau quoted Dmytro Sakharchuk arsenic saying. "It's 2 oregon 3 hours a day."

SOME RUSSIAN MISSILES DESTROYED

Russia, which invaded Ukraine successful February, has stepped up attacks connected Ukrainian vigor facilities successful caller weeks. Moscow dismisses charges of terrorism, saying its subject actions are intended to destruct unsafe nationalists and support Russian speakers.

Ukraine says its aerial defences person knocked retired galore of the missiles and drones fired successful the past fewer weeks. Kyiv metropolis officials said 4 missiles and 5 Iranian-made Shahed drones were destroyed adjacent the metropolis connected Thursday.

The latest attacks prompted Ukrainian officials to marque caller calls for its planetary allies to nonstop much aerial defence systems. They besides said Ukraine would basal firm.

"The force thinks helium volition weaken our defence with vigor strikes and beryllium capable to stab america successful the back. This is simply a naive maneuver by cowardly losers that we are acceptable for," Andriy Yermak, the caput of Zelenskiy's staff, wrote connected Telegram. "They volition not succeed. We volition crush them."

Additional reporting by Max Hunder, Dan Peleschuk and Aleksandar Vasovic, Editing by Timothy Heritage

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