Overnight Ukraine woke up to the sound of more explosions rocked throughout the capital and most of the country in Russia’s nightly attack.
Russia launched 167 Shahed and drones, some of which were dummies and ballistic missiles and Iskander’s were also let lose on Ukraine to cause more devastation, which is yet another sign that Vladimir Putin does not want peace.
As 9am this morning 106 drone were shot down over 14 Oblasts and 56 drones were lost, the Air Force reported.
Were we are based we heard anti-aircraft guns firing over Kyiv in the early hours which woke most of the city up and we could see some people heading to the makeshift bunkers.
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A huge drone strike hit Odessa region and 160,000 people without power, heating and electricity and the temperatures was minus 10 in the capital, if not colder further east.
During Russia’s barbaric attack four people were injured including a young child, residential buildings a children’s clinic and kindergarten was damaged in the attack.
At 01.34 Local time, in Kyiv residents were warned of a “Critical Increased air threat, at 02.00, 02.29, 02.54, 04.05 and 04.45 the alarms and air raid sirens run out across the capital.
Russia’s attacks are aimed to cause scare tactics and are mainly aimed at destroying Ukraine’s energy facilities.
However, the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov denies Russia is attacking the energy facilities inside Ukraine.
During talks in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday Lavrov told the US delegation, “We explained that we have never endangered the civilian energy supply systems and that our targets have only been facilities directly serving the Ukrainian Armed Forces.”
