Zelenskyy Vows Deep Strikes in Response to Russian Attacks on Energy Infrastructure
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Ukraine is preparing new deep strikes on Russian territory in response to massive drone attacks that left tens of thousands of people without electricity.
The Gaze reports on it, referring to Reuters.
Zelenskyy stressed that active operations will continue in the format necessary for the defense of the state, and the forces and resources for this have already been prepared.
"New deep strikes have also been planned," the Ukrainian President noted.
He made this statement after a meeting with the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Oleksandr Syrskyi, who presented his report to the President.
"First of all, about the Pokrovsk direction, where the Russian army is concentrating its greatest efforts and, accordingly, suffering the greatest losses. Our units continue to carry out their assigned tasks in Donetsk Oblast and are methodically destroying the occupiers," Zelenskyy said, adding that in the first eight months of this year, the Russians lost more than 290,000 soldiers killed and seriously wounded.
At the same time, Ukraine suffered significant damage to its energy infrastructure as a result of another wave of Russian attacks.
The largest private energy company, DTEK, reported that 29,000 people were left without electricity as a result of drone attacks on four facilities in the Odesa region. The port city of Chornomorsk was the most affected, with residential and administrative buildings damaged and one person injured.
In the Chernihiv region, drone attacks left another 30,000 households without power, including part of the city of Nizhyn.
The Ukrainian Air Force stated that Russia attacked Ukraine with 142 drones overnight, and its air defense forces managed to shoot down 126 of them.
The Gaze informed previously that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on the international community to impose new sanctions on Russia after Moscow unleashed massive strikes, firing nearly 540 drones, eight ballistic missiles and 37 other rockets across Ukraine overnight.