Russia pounded the Ukrainian energy grid with 120 missiles and 90 drones on Sunday, inflicting injury to the facility system and killing seven folks in an assault that renewed fears over the sturdiness of the hobbled vitality community.
The embassy in Kyiv urged US residents in Ukraine to have reserves of water, meals and different necessities corresponding to required medicines for the occasion of a “potential short-term lack of electrical energy and water” attributable to Russian strikes.
“Persistent Russian assaults concentrating on civilian infrastructure all through Ukraine could end in energy outages, lack of heating, and disruption of municipal companies,” it mentioned.
Andriy Kovalenko, head of the Ukrainian Safety Council’s Centre for Countering Disinformation, mentioned Russia was able to conduct extra airstrikes, as he commented on the US assertion.
“Let me remind you that the Russians have been stockpiling missiles for a sequence of assaults on Ukraine for months. This contains Kh-101 missiles, which they proceed to provide, in addition to Kalibrs and ballistics,” he mentioned.
Russia had been warning the West for months that if Washington allowed Ukraine to fireplace US, British and French missiles deep into Russia, Moscow would think about these NATO members to be immediately concerned within the conflict in Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin mentioned in October that Moscow was engaged on other ways to reply if Washington permitted Ukrainian strikes with US-made weapons deep into Russia.
On Tuesday, Putin lowered the threshold for a nuclear strike in response to a broader vary of standard assaults, with nuclear dangers rising amid the very best tensions between Russia and West in additional than half a century.