The Russian authorities launched what it introduced was a “huge” assault on “crucial” vitality targets in Ukraine on Christmas Day.
The foremost drone and missile assault on Kharkiv led to energy cuts and outages throughout Ukraine, together with in its capital Kyiv. Ukrainian protection authorities had been initially mum on casualty estimates and figures.
“This Christmas terror is [Russian leader Vladimir] Putin’s response to those that spoke about [an] illusionary ‘Christmas ceasefire,’” Andrii Sybiha, the Ukrainian international minister, posted to social media web site X on Wednesday.
Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, posted that “Putin intentionally selected Christmas for an assault. What could possibly be extra inhuman,” including: “Each Russian huge strike takes time to arrange. It’s by no means a spontaneous determination. It’s a acutely aware alternative not solely of targets, but additionally of time and date.”
On Christmas Day, Russia’s authorities publicly touted the strikes on Ukrainian vitality infrastructure as a navy success.
“This morning, Russia’s Armed Forces carried out an enormous strike with long-range precision weapons and strike drones on crucial vitality infrastructure services in Ukraine that make sure the operation of the military-industrial complicated,” the Russian Protection Ministry mentioned on Telegram. “The strike’s goal was achieved. All services had been hit.”
The human value of the assaults was instantly obvious and chilling as these within the invaded nation marked the vacation virtually three years right into a battle. Reuters stories that “half one million individuals in Kharkiv area had been left with out heating, in temperatures only a few levels Celsius above zero, whereas there have been blackouts within the capital Kyiv and elsewhere.”
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