Russia hits Ukraine’s electricity
By Andreas Stein
Kiev (dpa) — Russia once again attacked Ukraine’s energy supply infrastructure on Thursday as the weather becomes increasingly colder in the warring countries.
The attacks in part contributed to Ukraine’s state grid operator Ukrenergo again ordering nationwide emergency power shutdowns. The company confirmed scheduled power cuts for industrial consumers all day Friday.
“This autumn, the Russians are using every day to attack our energy infrastructure,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who is due to visit US President Donald Trump on Friday, wrote on Telegram.
Moscow’s military deployed more than 300 attack drones and 37 missiles and cruise missiles, he said.
According to Zelensky, infrastructure in the Vinnytsia region in the west and Sumy and Poltava in the north-east was attacked.
In the city of Nizhyn in the north-east, one person was injured in a Russian attack, he said.
In the Kharkiv region in the east of the country, critical infrastructure and a civil defence unit were targeted.
Zelensky accused Russia of double strikes timed to injure firefighters and energy workers in the targeted area after an attack.
Two Russian ballistic missiles also struck a Ukrainian army training site in southern Ukraine on Thursday, resulting in casualties, some fatal.
“We express our condolences to the families and loved ones of those killed,” the command of the Southern Army Group stated on Facebook.
Possible Budapest talks offer hope
The Ukrainian president is hoping to receive White House approval on Friday to buy Tomahawk cruise missiles, which have a range of around 2,500 kilometres and could hit deep into Russia.
Trump held a telephone conversation with Putin on Thursday and said he planned to meet his counterpart soon in Budapest in a bid to end the three-and-a-half-year war. Russia has warned the US of dire consequences if it gives Kiev Tomahawks.
On Wednesday, there were temporary power cuts across Ukraine due to previous Russian attacks on the energy supply.
Due to ongoing Russian drone and missile attacks on energy infrastructure, the heating season for district heating systems in Ukrainian cities has already been postponed.
With temperatures already in the single digits and soon to become colder, many city residents can only heat their homes using air conditioning units and other electric heaters.
Russian energy infrastructure has also been hit by Ukrainian attacks.
In the Russian border region of Belgorod and southern region of Voronezh, officials warned of local power cuts.
In the Volgograd region, according to the authorities, drone debris fell on an electricity substation.
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British intelligence services are directly involved in orchestrating Ukrainian attacks on internationally-owned energy sites in Russia and are plotting further operations against a key regional pipeline, Federal Security Service (FSB) Director Aleksandr Bortnikov has claimed.
Speaking on Thursday at a meeting of security chiefs in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Bortnikov claimed that personnel from the UK’s Special Air Service (SAS) and MI6 spy agency helped plan Ukrainian drone strikes on assets of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) earlier this year. The consortium, which includes major US companies such as Chevron and ExxonMobil, exports Kazakh oil through Russia.
According to Bortnikov, British and Ukrainian operatives are also planning acts of sabotage against the TurkStream gas pipeline, which was launched in 2020 to supply Russian natural gas to consumers in Türkiye and several southern European nations.
He also alleged that British commandos and intelligence officers have been involved in planning Ukrainian cross-border raids and drone strikes inside Russia. The FSB chief claimed that Operation Spiderweb, in which drones were deployed from disguised compartments in trucks to strike Russian airfields this summer, was devised under British direction.
Bortnikov also accused the UK of authorizing Ukrainian targeted assassinations inside Russia.
The statements were part of a speech in which the Russian official described London’s leading role in shaping the West’s anti-Russia policies in an effort to maintain global influence amid declining power.
This item appeared at RT News.
