Days after one of Russia’s most intensive bombardments of the war, additional attacks have been recorded in Ukraine.
According to officials, a gas production plant and a missile factory in Dnipro were among the most recent targets, and at least four persons were killed in a single region.
Following a series of combat setbacks in recent weeks, Russia has sought to target vital Ukrainian energy infrastructure.
Moscow has not yet commented on the purported attacks on Thursday.
According to the president’s office, four persons perished as a result of a nocturnal attack on residential premises in the Zaporizhzhia region.
Meanwhile, missiles struck one of Ukraine’s major towns, Dnipro, triggering a fire at an industrial site and 14 injuries, according to the regional administrator.
The city’s Pivdenmash factory, which produces missiles, among other products, was bombed, according to the prime minister.
According to reports, 70 shells landed in the city of Nikopol, causing infrastructure damage and leaving thousands of houses without power and water.
Official updates indicate that further infrastructure was attacked in the Odesa and Kharkiv regions, resulting in three injuries in each locale.
Kyiv was just one location where air raid sirens could be heard. At approximately 06:00 GMT (08:00 local time), mobile phones began pinging with official alerts of a new nationwide missile attack.
Local air defenses were activated, and military authorities reported that at least two Iranian drones and two cruise missiles were shot down.
The head of the Lviv area stated that he lacked confirmation that air defenses had also been deployed there.
In response to Thursday’s attacks across the nation, the White House chief of staff accused Russia of attempting a “back strike.”
Andriy Yermak stated that his countrymen were able to overcome this “naive strategy.”
The Ukrainian population has been observed to take air raid alarms more seriously since Tuesday’s massive onslaught.
On that day, dozens of long-range missiles bombarded Ukraine in what was regarded to be the most severe onslaught since the beginning of the conflict.
A rocket landed outside of Ukraine on Tuesday evening, killing two people in a Polish village near the shared border, raising worries of a disastrous escalation in the conflict.
Despite President Volodymyr Zelensky’s initial insistence that this was a Russian missile, Kyiv’s supporters stated that it appeared to have been launched by Ukrainian air defenses.
However, according to Jens Stoltenberg, the president of the NATO military alliance, Moscow was ultimately responsible for beginning the war in the first place.
Many of the missiles fired by Russia on Tuesday were intercepted, but those that did manage to hit infrastructure targets drained Ukraine’s power reserves further.
This is a recent Russian tactic in response to a succession of tactical failures, and its effects are becoming increasingly pronounced.
Thursday morning residents of Kyiv awoke to a layer of snow. Due to unexpected power outages, many people are unable to heat their houses.
The senior American military has warned that Kyiv’s short-term chances of winning the war by reclaiming all Russian-occupied territory are “not high militarily.”
General Mark Milley conceded, however, that a “political solution” could exist in which Russia decides to withdraw, stating that the invading power is “on its back.”
Following the recapture of the southern city of Kherson, there has been confidence on the side of Ukraine in recent days.
There are currently reports that civilians were tortured during the Russian occupation. Russia has denied multiple times that it committed atrocities throughout the conflict.
In other news, the Ukrainian government announced that an agreement allowing grain exports via ships on the Black Sea has been extended for an additional 120 days.
The arrangement, mediated by the United Nations and Turkey, has allowed millions of tonnes of Ukrainian goods to be exported in recent months, relieving concerns about global food security.
Before its implementation in July, Russia had blocked the Black Sea ports of Ukraine.
