KYIV: Russia attacked cities throughout Ukraine in a single day with lots of of drones and a missile strike, hitting vitality infrastructure and wounding a minimum of 15 individuals, authorities stated on Wednesday (Jul 16).
Ukraine’s air drive stated Russia launched 400 drones and one ballistic missile, primarily concentrating on Kharkiv, Kryvyi Rih and Vinnytsia – three cities in numerous components of Ukraine.
The big-scale long-range assaults focused vitality infrastructure, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated on X.
Energy was reduce for 80,000 households in Kryvyi Rih and different areas within the Dnipropetrovsk area, Ukraine’s largest non-public vitality firm DTEK stated on the Telegram app.
The air drive stated it had shot down a lot of the drones, however that 12 targets had been hit by 57 drones and the missile.
Russia has stepped up assaults on cities throughout Ukraine this summer season, recurrently sending a number of hundred drones accompanied by ballistic missiles. The assaults had been cited by US President Donald Trump this week as a motive for his determination to approve more weapons for Ukraine, together with air defences.
“Russia doesn’t change its technique, and to successfully counter this terror we want a systemic strengthening of defences – extra air defences, extra interceptor (drones), extra dedication to make Russia really feel our response,” Zelenskyy wrote.
In Vinnytsia and the encompassing area, eight individuals had been wounded, in response to Ukraine’s inside ministry.
Polish Overseas Minister Radoslaw Sikorski stated on X that drones had hit a manufacturing facility of the Polish wooden flooring producer Barlinek Group in Vinnytsia, which is within the western a part of central Ukraine.
“The plant supervisor informed me simply now that it was deliberate, from three instructions … Putin’s legal conflict is getting nearer to our borders,” he added.
