Warning of air strikes across the country

Russia shoots down Ukrainian "Drones" and bombs the infrastructure in Kyiv

Rescue workers work at the site in Kyiv that was hit by a Russian missile.

Reuters

Yesterday, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that five Ukrainian drones had been shot down over the Black Sea and Crimea, while Kyiv reported that infrastructure facilities in the city had been bombed, while the Ukrainian authorities issued a warning of air strikes throughout the country.

A spokesman for the Ministry of Defense confirmed that Russian forces had made progress in Donetsk, repelled Ukrainian attacks in the city, and also targeted Ukrainian armed groups in Zaporizhia.

And on Tuesday, the Crimea peninsula under Russian control in Ukraine was attacked by drones, while the Russian forces there were “on alert,” according to what the authorities appointed from Moscow announced.

This comes as the Ukrainian authorities issued a warning of air strikes across the country yesterday, while the Interfax-Ukraine news agency reported explosions in several regions in the south and southeast of the country, quoting local channels on the Telegram messaging app.

And the mayor of Kyiv, Vitali Klitschko, announced that infrastructure facilities in the city were bombed, after a series of explosions were heard in the Ukrainian capital.

The mayor wrote on Telegram: “The enemy is launching missile strikes on vital infrastructure in the city of Kyiv.

Stay in the shelters until the air alert ends, ”without further details.

After a series of explosions sounded, electricity was cut off in northern and central Kyiv, according to the agency's correspondents.

For his part, Zelensky said, after the strikes, that "the enemy decided again to try to resort to terrorism and murder, to achieve what it was unable to achieve for nine months, and it will not be able to achieve it."

"The continued attacks on health and energy infrastructure mean that hundreds of hospitals and public health facilities are no longer fully functioning," Hans Kluge, director of the organization for Europe, told reporters.

Russia has systematically targeted Ukraine's energy infrastructure, inflicting severe damage on it before the winter season.

On the other hand, the Ukrainian security services announced yesterday that they had confiscated "pro-Russian publications" and money and interrogated dozens during a raid on a number of Orthodox monasteries.

On Tuesday, the security services raided the most prominent monastery in the capital, Kyiv, where the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church is located, on suspicion of having links with Russia.

The Kremlin condemned the raids, considering it a new chapter in Kyiv's "war" against the Russian Church.

Britain announced its intention to provide Ukraine with helicopters for the first time since the outbreak of the war.

The Ministry of Defense in London said that 10 crews of Ukrainian military and engineers underwent a six-week training program in the United Kingdom, within the framework of “the first helicopter force granted by the United Kingdom to Ukraine.”

This comes at a time when the European Parliament decided yesterday to classify Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism, and said that the military strikes carried out by Moscow on civilian targets, such as energy infrastructure, hospitals, schools and shelters in Ukraine, violate international law.

The move is largely symbolic, as the EU has no legal framework to support this.

At the same time, the bloc imposed unprecedented sanctions on Russia, due to its war on Ukraine.

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