The Russian Defense Ministry reported that last night they struck power facilities in Ukraine, including hypersonic aeroballistic missiles "Dagger".
"In response to the terrorist attacks of the Kiev regime on civilian objects on the territory of Russia, tonight the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation delivered a massive strike with long-range ground- and air-based high-precision weapons, including Kinzhal hypersonic aeroballistic missiles, as well as strike unmanned aerial vehicles on energy infrastructure facilities that provided the work of military-industrial complex enterprises Ukraine," the Russian Defense Ministry reports.
According to him, the targets of the strike have been achieved.
"All designated facilities have been hit," the department added.
The operator of the Ukrainian energy system of Ukraine reports in the afternoon that after the retaliatory strike, energy facilities in several regions were damaged, which led to the de-energization of a significant number of consumers.
"The most difficult situation is in Kyiv, Kyiv, Kharkiv, Sumy, Poltava and Chernihiv regions. To stabilize the situation in the power system, emergency shutdowns have been introduced in some of these regions, as well as in the Zaporozhye and Dnipropetrovsk regions,"Ukrenergo reports.
At the same time, in the Chernihiv region, the local regional power company introduced a schedule of hourly outages in the volume of one queue, the operator said.
As EADaily reported , the Russian army has launched a massive retaliatory strike on the power system of Ukraine and emergency shutdowns are underway in Kyiv and nine regions of Ukraine. DTEK confirmed hits on its thermal power plants. Hydroelectric power stations and thermal power plants were also hit.
As reported by the Ukrainian telegram channel "Resident" on the eve, Moscow unofficially warned the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine that the continuation of attacks on power facilities