Rescuers respond at the site of a missile strike searching for people trapped under the rubble of a ruined private residential building on March 22, 2024 in Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine.
HANNA ARHIROVA and JIM HEINTZ / AP — Russia unleashed one of its most devastating attacks against Ukraine's electric sector on Friday, an aerial assault it said was retaliation for recent strikes inside Russia and which could signal an escalation of the war just days after President Vladimir Putin cemented his grip on power in aMany Ukrainians were plunged into darkness across several cities, at least five people were killed, and damage to the country’s largest hydroelectric plant briefly...
“With Russian missiles, there are no delays, like with aid packages to our state," Zelenskyy said. “It is important to understand the cost of delays and postponed decisions.”Russia's defense ministry called Friday attacks “strikes of retribution.” Ukraine has increased shelling of Russia's Belgorod region along its northeast border and has launched drone strikes targeting Russian oil refineries and other energy facilities.
The day after he declared victory, Putin said Russia would seek to create a buffer zone inside eastern Ukraine to help protect against long-range strikes and cross-border raids. While launching the strikes, Russia has combined sophisticated ballistic and cruise missiles with waves of cheap Iranian-made Shahed drones in a bid to oversaturate and weaken Ukrainian air defenses.
Strikes sparked a fire at the hydroelectric plan in Dnipro, which supplies electricity to the nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia, the largest such installation in Europe.
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