Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced Thursday that most of his country suffers from power outages amid a significant drop in temperatures, after violent Russian missile attacks targeted again throughout the country.

This comes while the spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, announced that Russia's assessment of the Ukrainian president's peace plan is "ridiculous", and that it is only an attempt by Washington to present the Ukrainian regime as a peacemaker.

And the Ukrainian authorities reported earlier that the capital and other provinces were subjected to a new wave of Russian bombing with 120 missiles, targeting vital installations and civilian areas and leading to widespread power outages.

The Ukrainian Air Force also said that the country is under the most violent attack in weeks from various directions with cruise missiles from the air and sea, from strategic planes and ships.

"As of this evening, there are power outages in most regions of Ukraine," Zelensky said. "It is especially difficult in the Kyiv region, the capital, the regions of Lviv, Odessa, Kherson, Vinnytsia and Transcarpathia."

"With every missile strike of this kind, Russia only reaps pushing itself deeper into a dead end," he added.

"The designation of the largest terrorist state in the world will have consequences for Russia and its citizens for a long time. And every missile only confirms that all this must end in the courts. And that is exactly what will happen."


Belarus missile

On the impact of this bombing and the activation of the Ukrainian air defense system, Belarus, Moscow's closest ally, confirmed that it had shot down an anti-aircraft missile from Ukrainian territory.

The Belarusian authorities broadcast pictures of fragments that fell in a field in the Brest region, near the village of Gorbakha, in the southwest of the country.

Minsk summoned the Ukrainian ambassador to protest, and demanded an investigation, and Kyiv responded in the evening that it did not rule out a "deliberate provocation" by Russia, which may have directed its cruise missiles in a way that caused its interception over Belarus, with the aim of "implicate Belarus in its war."


warships

On the other hand, Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed that his country will increase the pace of construction of new warships and work to increase their number.

Putin's announcement came during his participation via video link in the ceremony of raising the Russian flag on the new ships joining the Russian Navy and the launch of the "Emperor Alexander III" nuclear submarine.

Putin explained that the crews of the Russian Navy will be prepared taking into account the experience gained during the Russian special military operation in Ukraine, as he put it.

On the other hand, informed sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that the United States is considering sending Bradley combat vehicles to Ukraine as part of more military support, noting that no final decision has been taken in this regard yet.

The sources added that it is not yet clear when the vehicles will be operational, Bloomberg News reported Thursday.


deaths and bombing

On the ground, the Ukrainian General Staff announced that 230 Russian soldiers were injured in Tokmak, Titov and Berdyansk, Zaporozhye province.

The authority said that the bombing of the Ukrainian forces destroyed a Russian command center, another communications center, and a number of military equipment.

It added that the Ukrainian aviation carried out 17 raids on the positions of the Russian forces, and 4 raids on the sites of missile systems, in addition to destroying 5 Russian control points on more than one front.

On the other hand, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that its forces killed about 200 Ukrainian soldiers during the military operations that it carried out last day, and the ministry's spokesman confirmed that the Russian forces targeted the positions of the Ukrainian forces in more than a hundred areas during the past hours and continue their offensive operations in Donetsk.

The pro-Russian local authorities in the same canton also reported the death of a woman and the injury of 3 civilians as a result of the continuous Ukrainian shelling of residential neighborhoods.

She added that the Ukrainian forces bombed the canton about 50 times within 24 hours, and that the shelling targeted 6 residential neighborhoods that were targeted with about 300 shells, causing material damage.

For its part, the Russian Ministry of Defense said that it had destroyed an American Himars missile launcher in the province, and had shot down two Ukrainian Sukhoi-24 and 25 fighters and two Mi-8 helicopters in Donetsk.