War in Ukraine: missile strike by Russia In the midst of the Ukraine conflict, Russian missile attacks have forced power outages.

Numerous areas were impacted, he claimed, and the local government issued a warning that roughly half of the Kyiv region will continue to be without energy in the coming days.
On Monday, there were four fatal attacks.
More missiles reportedly struck vital infrastructure overnight close to the southern city of Zaporizhzhia.
Tuesday saw a different development when the governor of Russia’s Kursk region said an oil storage tank caught fire as a result of a drone strike on an airstrip.

Roman Starovoyt said that there were no fatalities, however two nearby schools were closed for the day. He made no mention of the potential perpetrators of the attack in the Ukraine-bordering region.

The energy minister in Ukraine stated that he planned to drastically minimize the power shortfall brought on by the most recent Russian strikes by Tuesday evening and re-connect nuclear power plants to the grid.

Many areas of the country are currently experiencing snowfall and temperatures below zero, and millions of people lack access to running water and electricity. There are worries that some people could pass away from hypothermia.

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70 Russian missiles were fired on Monday, according to President Zelensky’s televised speech, and “most of them were shot down.”

In contrast, the Russian defense ministry said that during its “massive strike employing high-precision weaponry,” it successfully struck all 17 of its intended targets.

The largest number of shutdowns, according to Mr. Zelensky, are in the areas of Vinnytsia, Kyiv, Zhytomyr, Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa, Khmelnytskyi, and Cherkasy, which cover the entire length and breadth of the nation.

He did, however, promise that the government “would do everything to restore stability.”

The head of Ukraine claimed that neighboring Moldova’s electrical supplies had also been impacted, demonstrating that Russia’s activities posed “a threat not only to Ukraine, but also to our entire area.”

When Russian missile threats are warned of, residents in Kyiv have begun seeking refuge in metro stations.

The strikes on Monday marked the ninth significant missile attack by Russia in the past eight weeks and came after days of continuous notifications that Moscow was preparing a new offensive.

Only a few hours had passed since a series of explosions at two military airfields deep inside Russia, which Moscow attributed to Ukrainian drones that Russian air defenses had managed to intercept.

The Russian defense ministry reported that in the airfields in the Ryazan and Saratov region, three personnel were killed and two planes suffered minor damage. Ukraine hasn’t made any public remarks about the situation.

Hundreds of kilometers from the Ukrainian border, the two airfields are home to Russian strategic bombers that have been employed in missile attacks.

Tuesday’s meeting of Russia’s security council, which typically meets on Fridays, was presided over by President Vladimir Putin.

The Kremlin leader declared in a clip from his opening comments that the meeting’s topic will be state security.
Russian base locations are shown on a map.