Overnight, Russia “unleashed a massive drone and missile barrage throughout Ukraine on Monday that appeared to target energy infrastructure,” AP reported this morning. Explosions were heard in the capital, Kyiv. Power and water supplies in the city have been disrupted by the attack, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said. In the wake of the barrage, the city administration announced plans to open “points of invincibility"—shelter-type places where people can charge their devices and get refreshments during energy blackouts. The AP report cites Ukrainian officials putting casualties at three dead and three wounded.
The Russian Defense Ministry confirmed the barrage in a statement posted on its Telegram channel in which it reported that strikes were delivered at power substations in Kyiv, Vinnitsa, Zhitomir, Khmelnitsky, Dnepropetrovsk, Poltava, Nikolayev, Kirovograd, and Odessa regions, on gas pumping stations in Lvov, Ivano-Frankivsk, and Kharkov regions and on munitions depots at airfields in the Kyiv and Dnepropetrovsk regions. “All the assigned targets have been destroyed resulting in power outages and disruption of railway transportation of arms and ammunition to the line of contact, it said.
There were also unconfirmed reports that Russian forces destroyed a Patriot anti-aircraft battery near Kyiv with Kinzhal hypersonic missiles and may have destroyed two F-16s in a hangar in Ivano-Frankivsk. Further on the F-16s, Avia.pro, citing Ukrainian sources, reported that there was a desperate effort by the Ukrainian air force to get them into the air during the Russian attack, to prevent them from being destroyed on the ground.
