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The missile strike caused a fire at the power generation facility, with emergency services working on site, he said. No casualties were reported in the attack on Lviv region at the time, Reuters reported.
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Russia’s air attack caused serious equipment damage at three thermal power plants, DTEK, Ukraine’s largest private electricity company, said.
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“The equipment is seriously damaged,” DTEK said on the Telegram messaging app. “Power engineers are currently working on eliminating the consequences of the attack.”
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Two Ukrainian security officials have been detained over an alleged Russian assassination plot against Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Ukraine’s president. Luke Harding writes from Kyiv that the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said it had exposed a network of agents run by Russia’s FSB that also intended to kill Ukraine’s military intelligence chief, Kyrylo Budanov, and the SBU’s head, Vasyl Maliuk.
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The plans included finding someone in the presidential entourage to capture and kill Zelenskiy, the SBU said; and to kill Budanov and others with a missile strike, kamikaze drones launched locally, then another missile strike to destroy the evidence of drones.
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The SBU named three FSB intelligence officers behind the operation as Maxim Mishustin, Dmytro Perlin and Aleksii Kornev. In intercepted messages, Perlin referred to the missile attack on Budanov as a “big bird” and the drone as a “small bird”. He emphasised: “The order is rocket, drone, rocket.”
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The SBU said it recovered drones, warheads and mines from one of the arrested Ukrainian alleged accomplices. He and others face charges of treason and terrorism. One of the alleged agents was a colonel serving in Ukraine’s state guard service, said to have met Kornev secretly before 2022 in a neighbouring European country.
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Ukrainian prosecutors say they have examined debris from 21 of around 50 North Korean ballistic missiles launched by Russia between late December and late February. The office of the chief prosecutor, Andriy Kostin, told Reuters the missiles’ failure rate appeared to be high: “About half of the North Korean missiles lost their programmed trajectories and exploded in the air; in such cases the debris was not recovered.”
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Use of North Korean missiles by Russia threatens a nearly two-decade consensus among permanent members of the UN security council on preventing North Korea expanding its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes. Russia recently vetoed the annual renewal of UN sanctions monitoring of North Korea.
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Russia has been shipping refined petroleum to North Korea at levels that appear to violate the mandates of the security council, a US official said on Thursday, adding that the US was planning new sanctions in response. The US would continue working with other countries to impose sanctions “against those working to facilitate arms and refined petroleum transfers between Russia and the DPRK”.
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Romania’s president, Klaus Iohannis, has said he is open to discussing sending a Patriot system to Ukraine after German appeals to EU and Nato member states.
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Ukrainian forces on Tuesday attacked an oil storage depot and sparked a large fire, injuring five people, on the outskirts of the Russian-held city of Luhansk in eastern Ukraine, the region’s Russia-installed leader said. There was no official Ukrainian statement on the incident. Separatist fighters backed and financed by Russia seized control of large chunks of Luhansk and Donetsk regions in eastern Ukraine in 2014 after Moscow annexed Crimea.
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Kiev officials said early Wednesday that Russian missiles and drones struck more than a dozen critical infrastructure facilities in Ukraine in a massive airstrike early Wednesday, severely damaging three Soviet-era thermal power plants. caused damage.
According to Reuters, the Air Force announced that it shot down 39 of the 55 missiles and 20 of the 21 attack drones used in the attack, indicating that Russia has begun a full-scale invasion. More than two years later, pressure on Ukraine’s beleaguered energy system continues to mount.
“Another major attack on our energy industry!” German Energy Minister Galushchenko wrote on the Telegram app. Interior Minister Ihor Klimenko said two people were injured in the Kyiv region and one in the Kirovohrad region.
He said around 350 rescue workers were rushing to minimize damage to multiple energy facilities, 30 homes, public transport vehicles, passenger cars and fire stations.
According to Galushchenko, power generation and transmission facilities in the Poltava, Kirovohrad, Zaporizhia, Lviv, Ivanofrankivsk and Vinnytsia regions were targeted. The attack was the latest in a series of attacks on critical energy infrastructure that began in March.
The attacks have already forced authorities to implement rolling blackouts in some areas, but the full impact is likely to be felt only in the latter half of the summer to winter period, when energy consumption peaks.
With the exception of southeastern Zaporizhzhya, all of these areas are located far from the eastern front, where heavy fighting is taking place and Russia is gaining ground.
Galushchenko did not name the facilities attacked, but said it was part of Kiev’s wartime secrecy policy to prevent Russia from using the information for further airstrikes.
Lviv Governor Maxim Kozytsky said Russia also attacked natural gas storage facilities in the same region in the country’s west, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reported.
There was no immediate comment from Moscow. Russia denies targeting civilians, but considers Ukraine’s energy systems to be legitimate military targets.
Russia attacks gas storage facility in Ukraine’s Lviv region, governor speaks out
Hello. Welcome to Ukraine’s live blog.Let’s start with the news Russia on Wednesday attacked critical energy infrastructure in western Ukraine’s Stryi region and power generation facilities in the Chervonohrad region.Governor Lviv said in a statement on the messaging app Telegram.
He said the missile attack caused a fire at a power generation facility and emergency services were on the scene. According to Reuters, no casualties were reported at the time in the attack on the Lviv region.
According to DTEK, Ukraine’s largest private electricity company, the Russian air raid caused significant equipment damage to three thermal power plants.
“The equipment has sustained serious damage,” DTEK said on the messaging app Telegram. “Power engineers are currently working to eliminate the effects of the attack.”
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Two Ukrainian security officials have been arrested on suspicion of a Russian assassination plot against Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Luke Harding is an operative from Kyiv run by Russia’s Federal Security Service who also intended to kill Ukrainian military intelligence chief Kirillo Budanov and SBU chief Vasyl Mariuk. He wrote that he had exposed the network.
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The plan included discovering Someone from the president’s inner circle captures Zelenskiy and kills him.said the SBU.And to Kill Budanov and others with a missile attacka kamikaze drone was launched locally, followed by another missile attack to destroy evidence of the drone.
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The SBU named the three FSB intelligence officers behind the operation as follows: Maxim Mishustin, Dmytro Perlin, Alexy Kornev. In intercepted messages, Perlin referred to the missile attack on Budanov as a “big bird” and the drone as a “little bird.” “The order is rocket, drone, rocket,” he emphasized.
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SBU said Recovered drones, warheads and mines From one of the Ukrainians arrested as an accomplice. He and others face charges of treason and terrorism. One of the suspects is Colonel in the Ukrainian National Guard, He is said to have secretly met with Kornev in a neighboring European country before 2022.
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Ukrainian prosecutors announced that they had investigated debris from 21 of the approximately 50 North Korean ballistic missiles launched by Russia between the end of December and the end of February. Chief Prosecutor Andriy Kostin’s office told Reuters. It appears that the missile failure rate was high.: “About half of North Korea’s missiles lost their programmed trajectories and exploded in midair. In these cases, no debris was recovered.”
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Russia’s use of North Korean missiles threatens nearly two decades of agreement among the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council. Prevent North Korea from expanding its nuclear and ballistic missile programs. Russia recently vetoed the annual update of UN sanctions monitoring against North Korea.
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Russia is shipping refined oil to North Korea U.S. officials said Thursday that the levels appear to be in violation of Security Council obligations, adding that the U.S. is planning new sanctions in response. The United States will continue to work with other countries to “impose sanctions against those whose activities promote economic activity.” Transfers of arms and refined oil between Russia and North Korea.”.
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Romanian President Klaus Iohannis said: Open to discussing sending Patriot systems to Ukraine After Germany appealed to EU and NATO member states.
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Ukrainian army on Tuesday Attacked an oil depot and caused a huge fireFive people were injured on the outskirts of the city. Luhansk, a city under Russian rule In eastern Ukraine, the leader of the Russian-established region said. There was no official Ukrainian statement regarding the incident. In 2014, after Russia annexed Crimea, separatist fighters backed and financed by Russia seized control of large parts of eastern Ukraine’s Luhansk and Donetsk regions.
