Russia launched a massive air attack on Ukraine today as it targeted the war-hit country’s energy infrastructure in the western Lviv region and elsewhere, officials said.
“The enemy attacked the energy infrastructure of our region and Ukraine,” Lviv mayor Andriy Sadovyi wrote on social media. Ukraine has also imposed emergency shutdowns on six regions, but Lviv is not on this list yet, he said.
Ukraine’s Air Force said Kh-101 cruise missiles were launched from Tu-95MS bombers and Kalibr cruise missiles entered Ukraine after being launched from the Black Sea.
The latest major Russian attack comes a day after Ukraine fired six British Storm Shadows and six US-made ATACMS ballistic missiles during its largest aerial bombardment of Russia in the war so far.
Ukraine’s military command called the aerial attack on Tuesday morning, which also involved hundreds of drones, Kyiv’s “most massive” yet.
Russia had vowed retaliation and said the “actions of the Kyiv regime, supported by its Western curators, will not go unanswered”. Its defence ministry claimed it had shot down all of the Western missiles fired by Ukraine.
