Residential deaths, targeted infrastructure, blackout… more Russian strikes on Ukraine

Russia launched its 12th massive missile attack on Ukraine on Saturday, Orthodox New Year’s Day. Most of the country was affected. “Festive Saturday – and the pursuit of terror” (Russian). While Ukrainian children are enjoying the sweets they received yesterday, Russia is attacking residential buildings,” First Lady of Ukraine Elena Zelenskaya commented.

In Dnipro, in eastern Ukraine, at least five people were killed in a strike on an apartment building in the city. According to the latest assessment, voiced by Governor Valentin Reznichenko, about 60 people were injured, including 12 children. The strike reached the entrance to a nine-story building, many of which are now smoldering ruins. In the south, in Krivoy Rog, one person died and another was injured in the destruction of residential buildings as a result of the strike, according to an official statement.

In the Sumy region, as a result of artillery and mortar shelling from the territory of Russia, a civilian received shrapnel, the Ukrainian president said.

“Eternal memory to all whose lives were claimed by the Russian terror! The world must stop this evil,” President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky reacted earlier on social networks, adding that “clearing the Dnieper of debris” continues.

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Energy Minister Herman Galushchenko said on Saturday that after the latest strikes in “most regions” of Ukraine, electricity was also denied. “Today, the enemy again attacked the country’s electric power facilities. The attacks are taking place in Kharkov, Lvov, Ivano-Frankivsk, Zaporozhye, Vinnitsa and Kyiv regions. Due to the shelling in most areas, a decision was made on emergency shutdowns, ”Galushenko wrote on Facebook.

“It’s completely dark here,” testified a BFMTV journalist who was present in Kharkov, where it was completely dark. In Kyiv in the morning, as a result of strikes by Russian troops, 28 residential buildings were damaged, the governor said. No casualties have yet been reported, but a massive rocket attack was carried out later that day, The kyiv Independent reports.

In just a day, the enemy launched three air strikes and about fifty missile strikes, the headquarters of the Ukrainian army specified. “In addition, the occupiers fired 50 rocket launchers.”

Another consequence of the strikes: in Moldova, rocket fragments were found near the village of Larga, in the north of the country. “The brutal war that Russia is waging against Ukraine has once again affected Moldova,” its President Maia Sandu wrote on Twitter, illustrating her message with photos of the wreckage and adding that she “strongly” condemns these “brutal attacks” by the Russians.