KYIV: Russia attacked cities throughout Ukraine in a single day with tons of of drones and a missile strike, hitting vitality infrastructure and wounding at the least 15 individuals, authorities stated on Wednesday (Jul 16).
Ukraine’s air pressure stated Russia launched 400 drones and one ballistic missile, primarily concentrating on Kharkiv, Kryvyi Rih and Vinnytsia – three cities in several components of Ukraine.
The massive-scale long-range assaults focused vitality infrastructure, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated on X.
Energy was minimize 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 pressure stated it had shot down many 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, frequently sending a number of hundred drones accompanied by ballistic missiles. The assaults had been cited by US President Donald Trump this week as a cause for his resolution 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 willpower to make Russia really feel our response,” Zelenskyy wrote.
In Vinnytsia and the encircling area, eight individuals had been wounded, based on Ukraine’s inside ministry.
Polish International Minister Radoslaw Sikorski stated on X that drones had hit a manufacturing unit 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 warfare is getting nearer to our borders,” he added.
