Attacks targeting infrastructure across country come as Moscow rejects Ukrainian peace plan
Russia launched a large round of missile attacks acrosson Thursday morning, as Moscow rejected a Ukrainian peace plan and kept up its attacks on the country’s infrastructure.
Ukrainians rushed to bomb shelters as air raid sirens sounded across the country, during the attacks that left many areas without electricity. The chief of Kyiv regional police said on Telegram that Russian attacks had damaged 21 houses, a hospital and two cars. In Kharkiv, authorities said one man had been killed and two injured in a series of attacks on critical infrastructure.Authorities in Dnipro, Odesa and Kryvyi Rih regions said they had taken the decision to switch off electricity to minimise damage to critical infrastructure facilities if they were hit.
Late on Thursday morning, the all-clear sounded in Kyiv, and authorities there and in Lviv said they hoped to restore electricity supply quickly. Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukraine’s president, said Russia was aiming to “destroy critical infrastructure and kill civilians en masse”.
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