Alberto Rojas
Updated Friday, March 22, 2024-11:12
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On the 758th night of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Z army launched the worst 'blitz' in memory since February 24, 2022.
More than 60 Shaheed drones and about 90 missiles
of different types (151 in total) , including cruise and ballistic missiles, hit civil infrastructure in several Ukrainian cities. The capital, kyiv, was bombed by 31 missiles, including the Kinzhal hypersonic missiles. Ukraine claims to
have shot down 92 of the 151.
Russia sought, once again, to destroy energy plants and succeeded in several places, such as
Kharkiv and Dnipro
, where they have been left in the dark. In this second city, the missiles fell on the turbines of the hydroelectric plant built on the dam, which has not been damaged in its structure. Because of the attack, the power line that feeds the
Zaporizhzhia
nuclear power plant , occupied by Z troops since the beginning of the war, has been left without power.
These two days there have been almost 200 projectiles that the Moscow regime has launched into Ukraine.
Vladimir Putin
has already verified the lack of commitment from the US Congress, which has frozen military aid, and the slow response from Europe. That's why he knows that Ukraine is running out of anti-aircraft ammunition and that its ability to shoot down drones and missiles is diminishing every day. If the situation is not reversed, in a few weeks Ukrainian cities
will be at the mercy of Russian bombs
without anything stopping them. Several experts have already warned that Ukraine's ability to shoot down missiles will go from four downs for every five missiles to one in five within weeks.
President Zelensky wrote on his profile on the social network "
Russia is at war with people's daily lives.
My deepest condolences to the loved ones of those killed by this terror." The attack has left at least three dead and several missing.
The missiles hit civilian targets in Kharkiv, Zaporizhia, Sumy, Poltava, Dnipro, Odessa, Vinnytsia and Ivano-Frankivsk. The projectiles launched include North Korean missiles, purchased by Russia from the Kim dictatorship to fill its arsenals. The war is so asymmetrical that while Europe prevents the use of its weapons against Russian territory, Russia does not hesitate to use against Ukraine everything it has acquired from its allied dictatorships, including
Pyongyang and Tehran.
An exclusive from
The Wall Street Journal
published this Friday details how the United States has asked Ukraine to stop attacking Russian refineries with drones
"to avoid an uncontrolled rise in the price of oil
. "
Again, the asymmetry: Russia can attack Ukrainian energy plants, but kyiv cannot do the same, even though it is the most effective method found to date to wear down the Russian economy in the face of the inefficiency of sanctions.
"Russian missiles are not delayed, unlike aid packages for Ukraine. Shahed drones [of Iranian origin] are not indecisive, unlike some politicians. It is essential to understand the cost of delays and postponed decisions," Zelensky wrote.
Ukraine's energy grid is receiving
urgent assistance from Poland, Romania and Slovakia
as missiles have left a million people without electricity, national grid operator Ukrenergo has admitted.