Russia has increasingly relied on remotely-launched guided bombs that involve less risk to its forces.
Russian guided bombs hit an apartment building in Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, killing three people, wounding 29 and prompting President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to ask Kiev’s allies for more help.
Photos posted online showed parts of the building in ruins, with broken windows, broken balconies and debris scattered over a crater in the ground on Saturday.
Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko put the death toll at three dead and 29 injured in the mid-afternoon attack. Regional governor Oleh Syniehubov said two children were among the injured and four of them were in serious condition.
“This Russian terror through guided bombs must be stopped and can be stopped,” Zelenskyy wrote on Telegram. “We need strong decisions from our partners that allow us to stop Russian terrorists and Russian military aviation right where they are.”
Russia has increasingly relied on the use of bombs, which are relatively cheap, launched from a distance and which involve less risk for its forces.
Syniehubov said rescue work is ongoing. Other civilian targets were also hit and public transport was disrupted. Mayor Ihor Terekhov said there were four strikes.
Kharkiv is about 30 km from the Russian border. The city of around 1.3 million people has frequently been the target of Russian attacks during nearly 28 months of war.
Directed energy installations
Overnight, Russia also launched a series of attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, injuring two workers, the second such attack this week, Kiev’s Energy Ministry said in a statement.
Ukraine is struggling with a new wave of rolling blackouts after ruthless Russian attacks on energy infrastructure that began three months ago wiped out half of the country’s energy production capacity. In its eighth major attack on energy facilities overnight, Russia fired 16 missiles and 13 Shahed drones, the Ukrainian Air Force said.
With no major changes reported along the 1,000-km (620-mile) front line – where a recent push by Kremlin forces into eastern and northeastern Ukraine has made only incremental gains – both sides have set their sights on infrastructure goals, seeking to contain each other’s difficulties. ability to fight in a war that is already in its third year.
On Friday, Russian-based officials said Ukrainian drone strikes hit two electricity substations in Enerhodar, the city serving the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said the attacks exposed Zelenskyy’s disregard for nuclear safety and that Moscow would take measures to stop the attacks.
“Taking into account the total inability of the Zelenskyy regime to negotiate anything, our country will take all necessary measures to deny the Kiev regime all means of carrying out such attacks,” Zakharova said on the ministry’s website.
Russian troops seized the plant in the first days of the February 2022 invasion and, since then, Moscow and Kiev have routinely accused each other of endangering security around them. It does not currently produce electricity.
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