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Russia hits Ukraine with fresh missile strikes, damaging vital infrastructure in Kyiv, Kharkiv
KYIV - Ukraine was hit by two waves of Russian air strikes on Saturday, with air raid sirens sounding across much of the country and and emergency power cuts announced across multiple regions.
The morning’s missile strikes hit crucial infrastructure targets in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv and the eastern city of Kharkhiv, while damage from the afternoon’s assaults were still being confirmed.
Authorities in Mykolaiv in the south, the western city of Lviv and the Black Sea port of Odesa said air defences were trying to shoot down incoming missiles.
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Ukraine’s Air Defence said Kremlin forces launched the missiles, likely ballistic and undetectable by air defence, from the north.
Ukraine is not able to identify and shoot down ballistic missiles, Air Force spokesman Yuriy Ihnat said.
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Ukrenergo, which runs the power grid, said its workers were racing to fix the damage and that the network was grappling with a power deficit caused by earlier attacks even though it was -2 degrees Celsius in Kyiv, only mildly cold.
DTEK, the biggest private electricity company, introduced emergency blackouts in Kyiv, the Kyiv region and Odesa region. Other regions also came under power cuts.