NATO provides Kyiv with jamming devices to repel drone attacks
Russian forces launch a missile attack on the outskirts of Zaporizhia, Ukraine
Ukrainian soldiers inspect an area outside Kherson after Russian forces withdrew from the city.
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Yesterday morning, Russian forces launched a missile attack on the outskirts of the city of Zaporizhia, in south-central Ukraine, and while Ukraine is repairing energy facilities damaged by heavy Russian strikes and providing heating and electricity to millions of Ukrainians, NATO has provided Kyiv with jamming devices to defend against attacks by Russian drones. .
In detail, the head of the regional military administration in Zaporizhia, Oleksandr Starukh, said on his account on Telegram, "The Russians targeted the outskirts of Zaporizhia again with missile strikes, and an investigation is underway into the details of the attack," according to the Ukrainian national news agency, "Ukrinform."
And it was reported earlier that Russian forces launched attacks targeting Zaporizhia on Thursday evening.
The city of Zaporizhya includes the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, and finally Russia and Ukraine exchanged accusations of bombing the Zaporizhya plant, which raised fears that the plant would be damaged and might threaten a nuclear catastrophe similar to that which occurred in the Chernobyl reactor explosion in 1986.
Meanwhile, Ukraine has been repairing energy facilities damaged by heavy Russian strikes and providing heating and electricity to millions of Ukrainians.
Ukraine's energy sector is on the verge of collapse, and millions of people have been suffering from emergency outages in recent weeks.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Moscow's new strategy aimed at plunging Ukraine into darkness will not undermine the country's resolve.
In an interview with the Financial Times newspaper published yesterday, he said, "It is a war of strength and steadfastness, to see who is stronger."
About 15 regions suffer from water and electricity supply problems.
"The electricity situation remains difficult in almost all regions," Zelensky said.
But we are gradually moving away from the interruption, and hour after hour we restore the power to new consumers.”
Three nuclear plants controlled by Kyiv have been reconnected to the grid.
"We will gradually restore power for two to three hours until we can increase the amount of electricity coming to Kyiv," DTEK network director Dmytro Sakharok said.
In the capital, water service was restored on Thursday evening, according to the municipality.
In Brussels, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said yesterday that NATO had provided Ukraine with jamming devices to defend against attacks by Russian drones.
“The allies are providing unprecedented military support,” Stoltenberg said, referring to shipments of fuel, medical supplies, wind equipment and jammers.
The jamming devices are designed to help Ukraine fend off drone attacks targeting the country.
The Secretary-General of NATO said that he will call for more contributions to Ukraine during the scheduled meeting of NATO foreign ministers next week in the Romanian capital, Bucharest.
For his part, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda called on the European Commission to reset the sanctions imposed on Russia, in response to the war in Ukraine and increased pressure on Moscow.
After a meeting with his Romanian counterpart, Klaus Iohannis, in Vilnius, Noseda said the EU's sanctions policy had sometimes had a greater impact on the bloc's economies, while its consequences were quite controversial for Russia.
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