On Monday Russian has launched a massive attack across 15 regions in Ukraine involving more than 100 missiles and around 100 drones.
The attack on Monday has been significant as the country were woken at 6am with haunting sound air raid sirens echoing across Ukraine.
By lunch time air riad sirens are still sounding across Ukraine and explosions rocked Kyiv for many hours.
The Kyiv Independent reported their reporters heard explosions across the capital and Ukraine’s air force said Kinzhal ballistic missiles were launched from Russian MiG-31s.
Rivne and Ivano-Frankivsk oblasts, Lviv, Dnipro, Khmelnytskyi, Kropyvnytskyi, Kryvyi Rih, Kharkiv, Odesa, Vinnytsia, Zaporizhzhia and in Kremenchuk Russia fired missiles and drones.
The Russian morning attack struck the Kyiv hydro dam. While the dam holds, the hydro power plant appears to be damaged. If the dam were to collapse, a significant portion of Kyiv would be floodedpic.twitter.com/tGRVP62LhD
— Tymofiy Mylovanov (@Mylovanov) August 26, 2024
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister, Dmytro Kuleba said that explosions rang out at 24 oblasts across Ukraine during Russia’s attack “primarily targeting critical civilian infrastructure and our energy system.”
He wrote on X, “There have been civilian deaths and injuries, as well as damage to energy facilities.
“Russia continues to wage a cowardly war against civilians, which constitutes war crimes.”
Ukrainians: russia wants to kill us.
Our partners: don’t escalate
russia: escalates, uses aviation
Ukrainians: you see, they want to kill us!
Our partners: here you have some weapons but don’t use them against russian aviationKyiv in July
Kyiv in August pic.twitter.com/QIILwMp4zH— Mariia Kramarenko (@KramarenkoMari3) August 26, 2024
DTEK, Ukraine’s largest private energy company said that after 9am emergency shutdowns took place across the country.
Across “several districts” in Kyiv are affected by power outages, the mayor of the capital Vitali Klitschko said.
A dam in Kyiv which is part of a Hydroelectric plant was hit during the Russian aerial bombardment, Tymofiy Mylovanov, an adviser to President Zelensky’s office, said.
