THE Ukraine hit two military bases in the central Russiahundreds of kilometers from the border of the two states, using remotely piloted unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), reports a New York Times report, citing a Ukrainian official.
The strikes show Kiev’s “new will” to “carry” the war into the heart of Russia, the US newspaper reports.
The UAVss took off from Ukrainian territory. Their strikes destroyed at least two aircraft at one of the bases and damaged several others, the NYT reported.
On Monday evening (5/12), the Russian Ministry of Defense confirmed that attacks were launched against air bases in central Russia. “The Kiev regime (…) attempted to carry out strikes with Soviet-designed drones on Diaghilev Air Base in Ryazan Oblast and Engels Air Base in Saratov Oblast,” according to the press release it released.
The purpose of the Ukrainian operation was to destroy “long-range Russian aircraft” used in strikes against Ukrainian energy infrastructure, according to the same img.
Always according to the version of the Russian Ministry of Defense, although these UAVs were intercepted by Russian air defense systems, their debris fell on the bases, causing explosions, killing three servicemen, injuring four others and causing “slight” damage to two Russian strategic bombers.
The managing company Ukrenergo warns of emergency power outages across the country after the Russian bombings
Ukraine’s power grid operator Ukrenergo warned on Monday night (5/12) that emergency power outages across the country, due to the new Russian plagues.
“Due to the consequences of the bombings (…) to maintain the balance between production and consumption, a system of emergency holidays will be implemented in all regions of Ukraine. Electricity will be given priority to basic infrastructure,” the company announced via Telegram.
“The situation is difficult, but under control,” Ukrenergo added.
Earlier, Kyiv said it had intercepted more than 60 of the nearly 70 missiles fired by the Russians.
However, “some power plants will not be able to operate fully for some time” and “combined with the frost that will intensify over the next 24 hours, this will lead to a system deficit,” the company explained.
The operation to restore the damage is ongoing, Ukrenergo assured.
40 percent of Kyiv region is without electricity after Russian airstrikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure, regional governor Oleksiy Kuleba said.
Excluding the work of the Ukrainian air defense forces, the governor said he has so far not seen “critical consequences” from the attacks in the region.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that air defense shot down most of the Russian missiles fired at Ukraine on Monday (5/12).
Alarm sirens sounded across Ukraine over this new wave of bombings amid freezing winter temperatures, which came on the day a price cap on Russian oil from the West comes into force.
The deputy head of the Ukrainian presidential administration told Telegram that the strikes killed at least two people and injured three, including a child.
According to the head of the military administration of Kryvyi Rih, in central Ukraine, “a part of the city has no electricity, several boilers and pumping stations have been disconnected.”
In Odessa, a major port in the south of the country, “all pumping stations and reserve lines lost their energy supply,” causing “a lack of water supply everywhere,” operator Infoksvodokanal said.
In Mykolaiv, also in the south, there were emergency power outages due to Russian strikes, Oleksandr Sienkevich, the mayor of this pre-war city of 470,000, announced on Telegram.
Finally, “an emergency power cut is applied throughout the Sumy region”, in the northeast, according to the local operator Sumoblenergo.
The Russian Armed Forces admitted that there was “a massive strike with high-precision weapons” around 12 noon, targeting Ukrainian army positions and energy infrastructure linked to Ukrainian forces.
Russia began hitting Ukraine’s energy infrastructure in October, causing major blackouts in several regions. Last Friday Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russian attacks on these infrastructures were “inevitable”.
Source: News Beast
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