Kyiv, 17 December 2022 (GNP): In the light of Russia and Ukraine conflict, Russian missiles and drones hit the nine power facilities on Friday morning.
Officials of Ukraine says that as many as 76 missiles were fired by the Russian forces especially targeting the energy infrastructure of Ukraine, with a clear intention to leave Ukrainian people without energy in winter.
The mayor of Kharkiv said that the city was left without electricity for four hours.
However, by the evening, more than 50 percent of the electric supply was restored in the city. But the major part of the city is still without power and water supply.
The regional Administrator of Kharkiv, Oleg Synegubov, said that 55 percent of the power supply was restored to the overall city while in the northeastern region of Kharkiv, 85 percent of power has been restored by the energy sector employees working on it dauntlessly.
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It is confirmed by Ukraine’s sole grid operating company, Ukrenegro, that the full restoration may take more time due to heavy damage done by Russian drones and missile attacks on Friday morning.
The importance would be given to the restoration of full power supply to the “critical infrastructure” like hospitals, water pumping stations, and sewage treatment plants, said the officials.
The Ukrainian Defence Minister Yuriy Sak told media, that Russian is deliberately and intentionally attacking the power supply lines of Ukraine which makes its restoration and repair difficult for them.
On Friday’s morning missiles attack, only 40 missiles were fired on the capital city, Kyiv. Among these 37 were shot down by the air defense system of Ukraine.
This is the biggest missile barrage on Ukraine since the Russian invasion started in last February.
Earlier in mid-November, more than 100 missiles and drone attacks were made on Ukraine by Russian forces in a single day.
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Ukraine accuses Russia of “weaponizing winter” by striking the power supply lines when the temperature runs minus in the overall country.
Volker Turk, the UN human rights commissioner, warned that if Moscow did not stop its missile attack on energy infrastructure it would lead to the serious humanitarian crisis in Ukraine.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal called these attacks on energy infrastructure the genocide of the Ukrainian people by Moscow.
Russia has barraged more than 10,000 missiles and Iranian-made attack drones on Ukraine since 10 October, when it started the latest wave of strikes on it.
