https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/28/world/europe/russia-missile-attack-ukraine-energy.htmlalt
https://archive.is/zmWFYUkraine said the attacks targeted energy infrastructure, leaving millions without power. Russia said they were retaliation for Kyiv’s use of long-range U.S. missiles.
image: Taking shelter in a subway station after an air raid warning in Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, on Thursday. Credit Tetiana Dzhafarova/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
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By Maria Varenikova
Reporting from Kyiv, Ukraine
Nov. 28, 2024
Updated 10:35 a.m. ET
Russia attacked Ukrainian energy infrastructure with missiles and drones on Thursday, in what President Vladimir V. Putin said was retaliation for Kyiv’s hitting Russian territory with long-range American missiles.
Mr. Putin suggested that such strikes could be stepped up, after millions of Ukrainians were left without power on Thursday, Ukrainian officials said. Ukraine’s energy ministry said it was the 11th major attack on the country’s energy infrastructure this year.
The total extent of the damage was not immediately clear, but explosions were heard in cities across Ukraine, and many officials reported power outages. Six people were reported injured across the country, according to the regional authorities.
“The energy sector is under massive enemy attack again,” Ukraine’s energy minister, Herman Halushchenko, wrote on his Facebook page. The operator of the Ukrainian transmission system “has urgently introduced emergency power outages,” he added.
