Explosions heard in Odesa, Kropynytskyi, Kharkiv, Rivne and Lutsk as Russia targets power grid
Explosions were heard in the Ukrainian cities of Odesa, Kropyvnytskyi, Kharkiv, Rivne and Lutsk on Thursday morning amid reports of a Russian cruise missile attack, Ukrainian news outlets Zerkalo Tyzhnya and Suspilne said.
Ukraine’s energy grid has been heavily targeted since Russia invaded in February 2022, with Kyiv accusing Moscow of “terror” tactics by trying to plunge Ukrainian cities into darkness and cut off heating to civilians throughout the winter, writes AFP. “Energy infrastructure is once again targeted by the enemy’s massive strike,” said the Ukrainian energy minister, German Galushchenko.The Odesa regional governor, Oleh Kiper, urged residents to stay in shelter.The national power grid operator Ukrenergo had “urgently introduced emergency power cuts”, said the energy minister, German Galushchenko, as temperatures across the country dropped to around freezing.
Ukrainian forces made a “complex drone and missile strike” against Sevastopol in occupied Crimea on Wednesday Volodymyr Zelenskyy is due on Thursday to sign Ukraine’s 2025 budget, which calls for the country’s first wartime tax increases.hoped tax increases would generate additional budget revenues of 141bn hryvnia . The prime minister, Denys Shmyhal, said record sums would be directed to weapons production and purchases including modernising Ukraine’s defence industry and buying drones.
. Kellogg served as a national security adviser to the former vice-president Mike Pence, then acting security adviser to Trump himself after Michael Flynn had toRussia’s sabotage of western targets may prompt Nato to consider invoking its article 5 mutual defence clause,
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