Ukraine was attempting to restore electricity service on Tuesday (6) following the recent Russian attacks that caused power outages across the country during the intense cold period.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said “most” of the 70 missiles launched by Moscow on Monday were shot down, but the rest hit the country’s already damaged electrical infrastructure.
As the Ukrenergo company reported in Telegram, new power outages were recorded in the region as a result of the attacks.
“There is no doubt that the Russian army consulted engineers from the energy sector during the attack,” said Ukrenergo President Volodymyr Kudrytskyi, citing where the missiles fell.
Noting that the attacks were carried out at the beginning of the coldest period in the country, Kudrytskyi said, “The moment the Russians choose to attack is connected with their desire to inflict the greatest possible damage.”
Our teams will work to repair the system,” he said.
Almost half of Ukraine’s power systems were damaged after months of attacks on the country’s infrastructure, leaving residents in the dark for hours in sub-zero temperatures.
UN Human Rights Commissioner Volker Türk, who started his four-day visit to the country at the weekend, had to move his meetings with activists to an underground bunker.
Zelensky announced in a speech at night that four people were killed in the Russian attacks.
But our people will never surrender,” he said.
At the same time, the governor of Russia’s Kursk region, on the border with Ukraine, said on Tuesday that a drone had attacked an airbase where an oil storage tank caught fire.
On Monday, Russia blamed Ukraine for two drone strikes on airbases in the Saratov and Ryazan regions, where three soldiers were reported killed.
At the same time, the Kremlin confirmed a large-scale attack on “Ukrainian military command systems and defense, communications and energy facilities.”
The attacks came after Russia rejected the ceiling on the price of one barrel of oil in the country from the West and warned that the measure would not affect the attack in Ukraine.
The ceiling of $60 per barrel set by the European Union (EU), G7 and Australia aims to limit Russia’s revenues while ensuring Moscow continues to supply the world market.
The current market price of a barrel of Russian oil is $65, just above the $60 ceiling, suggesting that the measure will have little impact in the short term.
This is the latest in a series of measures taken by Western countries against Russia, the world’s second-largest oil exporter, since President Vladimir Putin ordered an invasion of Ukraine on February 24.
The EU also declared an embargo on the shipment of Russian oil by sea, which went into effect Monday.
The embargo will stop the shipment of Russian oil to the EU by sea, which accounts for two-thirds of the bloc’s oil imports from Russia, giving Moscow access to billions of dollars.
source: Noticias
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