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Russia launches 'massive' missile attack on Ukraine's energy network
[BBC] SUMMARY
- Vladimir Putin says a Russian overnight missile and drone attack on Ukraine's power grid is a response to Ukraine's use of long-range US and UK weapons inside Russia
- The Russian leader also threatens to target Kyiv's "decision-making centres" with Russia's new ballistic missile
- The BBC's Sarah Rainsford says his claim of responding to the use of long-range Western weapons is deliberately misleading - the last big attack was before such weapons were deployed
- Ukraine reports no fatalities after the attack, but more than a million Ukrainians have been left without power as 12 targets were struck
- Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has described the attack as a "vile escalation"
- This is the second attack on the country's energy system this month, writes the BBC's Paul Adams in Ukraine, with temperatures falling
Posted by: Skidmark 2024-11-28 |
