{"id":8035,"date":"2024-05-08T08:05:52","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T08:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/internationalpulse.net\/?p=8035"},"modified":"2024-05-08T08:05:52","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T08:05:52","slug":"russian-missile-attack-damaged-ukrainian-energy-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internationalpulse.net\/?p=8035","title":{"rendered":"Russian missile attack damaged Ukrainian energy facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Ukrainian officials said Wednesday a massive Russian aerial attack that included 55 missiles and 21 drones damaged a power generation facility in the Lviv region of western Ukraine.<\/p>\n

DTEK, Ukraine’s largest private electricity company, said Russian missiles inflicted \u201cserious damage\u201d on three of the company\u2019s six thermal power plants in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Maksym Kozytskyi, the regional governor of Lviv, said on Telegram that Russian cruise missiles struck the generation facility in the Chervonohrad district as well as a critical energy infrastructure site in the Stryi district.<\/p>\n

There were no reports of casualties.<\/p>\n

Andriy Rakovych, the regional governor of central Ukraine\u2019s Korovohrad region, reported one person injured and 13 homes destroyed in a Russian missile attack.<\/p>\n

Officials in Vinnytsia also reported a Russian strike in attacks targeting critical infrastructure facilities.<\/p>\n

Ukraine\u2019s air force said the country\u2019s air defenses shot down 39 of the 55 missiles and 20 of the 21 drones.<\/p>\n

The attack came a day after Ukrainian counterintelligence investigators said they thwarted a plan by Russian agents to assassinate Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other high-level officials.<\/p>\n

Ukraine\u2019s state security service said two colonels in the State Guard of Ukraine, which protects top officials, were arrested on suspicion of treason for enacting the plan. A state security service statement said the plot was drawn up by Russia\u2019s Federal Security Service.<\/p>\n

Russia did not immediately comment on the reports, which indicate that the colonels were recruited prior to Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.<\/p>\n

Some information for this report was provided by Reuters, The Associated Press and Agence France-Presse.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n