Russia threatens 'massive strikes' on Ukraine energy sites
Moscow framed the move as retaliation after Ukrainian drone strikes disrupted fuel production and worsened gasoline shortages in Russia.
- On Sunday, the Russian defence ministry in Moscow announced the "Russian Armed Forces have begun preparations for massive strikes" on Ukraine's energy infrastructure, citing retaliation for attacks by the Kyiv regime on Russian facilities.
- Both sides have escalated long-range strikes on warehouses and refineries over recent months, with Kyiv increasingly targeting Russian energy infrastructure, including The Kirishi refinery, to pressure Moscow economically toward ending the war.
- The death toll from Saturday's Russian drone strike on a munitions depot in Myla rose to 38, with 20 people injured and four still missing, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed on Sunday.
- Writing on Telegram, Zelensky said "the extent of contamination in the area is significant," while Ukrainian prosecutors opened a criminal negligence investigation into explosives stored near homes in Dmytrivka.
- The Russian warning revives fears of a repeat of last winter, when Moscow's bombardment of Ukrainian power plants devastated the country's grid, leaving millions without heat or electricity in sub-zero temperatures.
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The Russian Ministry of Defence reported through Telegram that the Russian armed forces had begun to prepare heavy strikes on Ukraine's power sector installations in response to the continuing attacks by the Kiev regime on civilian infrastructure and the Russian oil and energy sector. The Russian Ministry of Defence announced that collective strikes continued to be directed against Ukrainian military industrial enterprises, confirming that a fac…
Russia plans to attack Ukrainian energy facilities.
Russia announced this Sunday that it is preparing "massive attacks" against Ukraine's "energy sector facilities", in a context of a clear intensification of the offensives of the two countries for several months.
Russia warns of preparations for ‘massive strikes’ on Ukraine’s energy sector
"Russian armed forces have begun preparations for massive attacks on the facilities of Ukraine's energy sector," the Russian Ministry of Defense said in a social media message quoted by the French agency AFP.
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