15 Ukrainian regions impacted by Russian attacks, prime minister saysThe Ukrainian prime minister, Denys Shmyhal, said this morning that “15 regions were affected” by Russian missile and drone attacks.
There are wounded and dead, he said, noting that energy infrastructure has been impacted and Ukrenergo is applying emergency power cuts to stabilise the system.
He also reiterated Kyiv’s call for long-range weapons and permission from partners to hit Russian targets.
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Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to the Ukrainian presidential office, has called for “more anti-missile equipment for Ukraine” and finalising “restrictive sanctions so that Russia will not be able to reproduce ballistics, hypersonic and cruise missiles.”
Another massive missile and drone attack by Russia. Targeted on 15 regions of #Ukraine at once. On energy, civilian objects. With unconditional genocidal intentions…
If anyone is still willing to talk to the collective entity “#Putin”, it means that such attacks are acceptable…
— Михайло Подоляк (@Podolyak_M) August 26, 2024 Ukraine’s energy minister, German Galushchenko, has called the situation at the moment challenging, Ukrinform reported.
Ukrenergo, the national power company, has instituted emergency power outages.
“The enemy is again causing missile terror against the whole of Ukraine. The energy sector is under attack. The enemy does not give up on plans to leave Ukrainians without electricity,” Galushchenko wrote in a social media post.
15 Ukrainian regions impacted by Russian attacks, prime minister saysThe Ukrainian prime minister, Denys Shmyhal, said this morning that “15 regions were affected” by Russian missile and drone attacks.
There are wounded and dead, he said, noting that energy infrastructure has been impacted and Ukrenergo is applying emergency power cuts to stabilise the system.
He also reiterated Kyiv’s call for long-range weapons and permission from partners to hit Russian targets.
Kyiv residents took shelter in the subway this morning.
A Ukrainian drone tried to attack an oil refinery in the Russian city of Yaroslavl, regional governor Mikhail Yevrayev said today, Reuters reported.
Three dead after Russia launches massive air attackGood morning. It is 10:20am in Kyiv. Russia has launched a missile and drone attack, according to Ukrainian military. Witnesses reported blasts near Kyiv, which were attributed to air defence responding to the attack.
At least three people were killed, regional authorities said. The casualties were reported in western Lutsk, eastern Dnipro and southern Zaporizhzhia regions.
Power and water supplies were disrupted in parts of Kyiv, the city’s mayor Vitali Klitschko said on the Telegram messaging app.
Ukraine’s largest private energy producer DTEK said it was introducing emergency power outages following the attacks.
We will keep you updated on developments. Meanwhile, here is the latest news from elsewhere in the Ukraine-Russia war:
Ukraine on Sunday called on Belarus to pull back what it described as significant levels of Belarusian forces and equipment deployed at their common border. The Ukrainian foreign ministry warned Belarus against making “tragic mistakes” while under pressure from Moscow. The ministry said Belarus special forces and former Wagner mercenary fighters were among the troops at the border.
A British man working for the Reuters news agency has been killed in a strike on a hotel in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, the news agency has said. Ryan Evans, who was working as a safety adviser for the agency, was killed after a missile struck the Hotel Sapphire on Saturday where he was staying as part of a six-person team.
Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said the hotel was hit by a Russian Iskander missile, a ballistic missile that can strike at distances up to 500 km (310 miles). “An ordinary city hotel was destroyed by the Russian Iskander,” he said in his evening address on Sunday, adding the strike was “absolutely purposeful, thought out … my condolences to family and friends.” Russia has been bombing hotels in frontline areas for more than a year.
Ukraine’s forces advanced up to three kilometres in Russia’s Kursk region, taking control of two more settlements there, Zelenskiy also said in his evening address.
Russia launched attacks on northern, eastern and southern Ukraine on Sunday, killing at least four people and injuring 37, Ukrainian military and local authorities said. Overnight attacks targeted Ukraine’s frontline regions of Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv and Donetsk, Ukraine’s air force said on the Telegram messaging app. “Most of the missiles did not reach their targets,” the air force said.
Former US president Donald Trump signalled his support for Ukraine in a conversation with Zelenskiy and said he wants to stop the war with Russia, the Ukrainian president told Indian reporters in an interview posted on his social media channel on Sunday.