The military command of Kyiv announced that four Russian missiles and five Shahed drones were shot down over the city today. The head of the military command said air defense forces “shot down several enemy objects targeting our critical infrastructure” but said there were “no strikes in the area”.
“However, we have strikes in other regions of Ukraine, which also affects our energy system. The situation with electricity in the region remains difficult. According to the decision of Ukrenergo, emergency power outages continue in the Kyiv region. The duration of holiday depends on the security situation and the speed of infrastructure restoration,” said Oleksiy Kuleba on Telegram.
In the Zaporizhzhia region, rescue teams are also clearing debris after this morning’s rocket attacks hit a residential building in the city of Vilniansk. The bodies of four dead people have been removed from the rubble, emergency services said, and there may be others in the building. “Four families — at least 8 people — lived in the home,” emergency services said on Facebook.
In the city of Dnipro in central Ukraine, 14 people, including a child, were hospitalized after shelling this morning. A Twitter user posted a video showing damaged residential buildings, according to Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy head of the Office of the President of Ukraine.
Tymoshenko posted a video of damaged buildings in Dnipro with air raid sirens sounding in the area. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy released a video from Dnipro showing an explosion on a busy street in the city. One of his advisers tweeted that Ukraine was once again experiencing “missile heaven.”
— Holly Elliott
Mixed feelings in Poland over missile incident
Poles have mixed feelings about Tuesday’s rocket attack that killed two civilians in a village near the border with Ukraine. Some citizens said they are now more concerned about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. while others noted that Tuesday’s event was an unfortunate accident that could have happened earlier. “Yes, I’m more worried now … we’re very close to it,” a young Polish worker told CNBC Thursday morning. “I only hope so [war] it ends very soon,” he added. A man who works at a hotel next to the Presidential Palace in Warsaw said: “There has been a constant fear since February 24 [when Russia started its invasion of Ukraine]. I don’t want escalation.” The same citizen hopes that there will be increased protection beyond the Polish border. Germany has reportedly announced it will send more airspace surveillance to Poland. A woman offers Polish donuts to U.S. Army soldiers assigned to the 82nd Airborne in Old Town March 7, 2022 in Przemysl, Poland. Omar Marques | Getty Images Poland, a NATO member since 1999, has seen one of the largest military units among alliance members. Figures released by NATO in July showed that 122,500 Polish troops and 11,600 troops from other NATO allies are stationed in the country. The United States leads the NATO battle group in Poland. A 39-year-old Polish salesman told CNBC he’s no more worried now than he was at the start of the week, arguing that “it’s a war and these things happen.” —Silvia Amaro
Russia launches more missile attacks on Ukraine, energy grid under attack
Ukraine was hit by more Russian shelling on Thursday morning with rocket attacks in the Kiev region, as well as Odesa and the southern city of Dnipro. The area around Kyiv was under fire, regional military command chief Oleksiy Kuleba warned on Thursday, noting that “since the morning, the enemy has been massively attacking Ukraine.” “Kiev region – air defense works. The danger has not passed. We have information about the flight of rockets … over the region,” he said. Burnt balconies and broken load-bearing structures of a residential building are seen after a massive Russian attack in Kyiv on November 15, 2022. Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Kirill Tymoshenko, the deputy head of the Office of the President, said that Russian forces bombarded Dnipro this morning with several hits on two infrastructure facilities that were reported. According to initial reports, one person was injured in the explosions. Elsewhere, Odessa RMA chief Maksym Marchenko said Russia launched a missile attack on an infrastructure facility in the southern port area. “There is a threat of a massive missile attack on the entire territory of Ukraine. I ask the residents of the area to stay in shelters,” he said. Russia’s near-relentless attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure are seen as a central part of its war strategy, aimed at depriving Ukrainians of water, heat and electricity as winter approaches. — Holly Elliott
UN Secretary-General says Black Sea grain deal is being extended
The Maltese-flagged bulk carrier Zante en route to Belgium transits the Bosphorus carrying 47,270 metric tons of rapeseed oil from Ukraine after being detained at the Bosphorus entrance due to Russia’s withdrawal from the Black Sea agreement on November 2, 2022 in Constantinople. Turkey. Chris McGrath | Getty Images The United Nations Secretary-General said Thursday that he welcomed the agreement by all parties to extend the Black Sea Grains Agreement to facilitate Ukraine’s agricultural exports from southern Black Sea ports. — Reuters
Kyiv wants to “crush” Russia as Moscow rains on Ukraine
The head of the Ukrainian President’s Office, Andriy Yermak, said Thursday that Ukraine is seeking to “crush” Russia and is enduring “extremely hard blows from the enemy.” “The enemy believes that he will weaken our defenses with energy strikes and be able to hit us in the back. This is a naive tactic of cowardly losers that we are ready for,” Yermak said in a statement on Telegram. “Ukraine has already endured extremely hard blows from the enemy, which did not have the results these Russian cowards were counting on. We keep moving forward,” Yermak said. “They will not succeed. We will crush them,” he added. Ukraine experienced a massive attack on its energy infrastructure on Tuesday with Kyiv claiming that Russia targeted it with around 100 cruise missiles, damaging energy infrastructure in several areas. Ukraine’s national energy company and Energy Minister German Galushenko called the Russian attack on Ukraine’s energy system the most massive attack in the country’s history and since the war began. The UK Ministry of Defense said on Thursday that Russia’s relentless attacks on Ukraine’s energy sector, which has left millions without electricity, are “deeply draining Russia’s stockpile of conventional cruise missiles” as the degradation of Ukraine’s national infrastructure continues. key element of Russia’s strategic approach. in the campaign. It said Tuesday’s strikes were “probably the largest number of strikes Russia has carried out in one day since the first week of the invasion.” “Ukraine is facing a significant reduction in available power from its national grid. This will impact citizens’ access to communications, heating and water supplies.” — Holly Elliott
Ukraine says its forces are not responsible for Poland’s missile attack
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he had “no doubt” that Ukraine was not responsible for the missile attack that hit a Polish village on Tuesday night, killing two people. Zelensky told Ukrainian television on Wednesday that his top military commanders had assured him that “it was not our missile and not our missile attack” that was the cause of the incident, which sparked international outrage and fears that a wider conflict between NATO and Russia could explode. “I have no doubt about [Tuesday’s] report to me personally — from the Commander of the Air Force to the Commander-in-Chief [Valery] Zaluzhny — that it was not our missile and not our missile strike,” Zelenskyy said. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy visits Kherson, Ukraine on November 14, 2022. Presidential Press Service of Ukraine | Reuters He repeated calls for Kyiv to grant him access to the blast site, near the village of Przewodow in southeastern Poland and just 4 miles from the Ukrainian border, and for Ukraine to join a joint Polish-US-led investigation. “I think we have the right to that. Is it possible to withhold final conclusions until the investigation is complete? I think that’s fair. If someone says this is our missile, should we be on a joint investigation team? I think it should, it’s fair.” NATO’s initial assessment of the incident, which Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg briefed the press on Wednesday, effectively exonerated Ukraine, finding that while a Ukrainian air defense missile appeared to have caused the explosion in Poland, the incident occurred while Ukraine was defending against in a barrage of Russian cruise missiles. — Holly Elliott
More than 60 tortured bodies exhumed in newly liberated Kherson region, Ukraine says
Workers clear debris from the road in front of a damaged storage complex in the recently recaptured village of Archangelske in Kherson, Ukraine on October 26, 2022. Anadolu Agency | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Ukraine’s Interior Minister Denis Monastirsky said 63 bodies of tortured residents were recovered in the recently liberated Kherson region. “The bodies of those who were tortured there are being exhumed. So far, 63 bodies have been discovered in the entire Kherson region, but we must understand that the investigation has only just begun,” he said, according to a translation by NBC. Russia has previously said its forces have not committed war crimes in Ukraine, which would include torturing and killing civilians. — Amanda Macias
