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Russia Ukraine War: While Israel and Palestine have been at war for almost a year, there are two countries who have been at war and have been attacking each other for almost two years and these nations are Russia and Ukraine. Despite seeing the heartbreaking effects of war as a first-hand experience, the two nations continue to fight and defend themselves amid the ongoing Russia Ukraine War. In a latest development, the residential areas of Kharkiv in Ukraine have been hit by Russian Drone Attacks which has resulted in massive power cut, forcing Ukraine to roll out emergency power outages. In this drone attack, at least 30 people have been injured and four have also lost their lives.
As mentioned earlier, a Russian drone attack struck residential buildings in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv and an energy facility in the surrounding region on Thursday, killing four people and severing power for 350,000 residents, officials said. Ukraine’s second-largest city, which lies some 30 km (20 miles) from the Russian border, has been pounded by strikes during the 25-month war and been one of the worst afflicted as Russia has renewed its missile and drone attacks on the energy system. Governor Oleh Synehubov said three rescue workers had been killed in a repeat strike after they reached a residential block hit in one attack.
Under floodlights in the night, emergency services raced to rescue a resident trapped under rubble and ladders reached up from fire trucks to shattered apartments at the top of high-rise blocks. “Windows, all of the glass, everything was knocked out. There’s nothing left,” Zhanetta Kravchenko, a 77-year-old resident, told Reuters. “We are alive, at least, and I’m grateful for that.” Ukrainian broadcaster Suspilne reported that one of the strikes caused serious damage to apartments on three floors of a 14-storey building. It said emergency crews had been unable to work for at least an hour for fear of further strikes.
Residential buildings, stores, a medical facility and cars were damaged in the attack, the Kharkiv prosecutor’s office said on Telegram. Russia used at least 15 drones in the Kharkiv attacks, Synehubov said. Ukraine’s military shot down 11 Shahed drones out of 20 launched at the country overnight, the General Staff said.
Drones also hit the Zmiivska thermal power plant in the region, Synehubov said, keeping up pressure on an energy system that has come under repeated attack from air strikes in recent weeks. “In Kharkiv and areas of the region, around 350,000 consumers have been disconnected,” the Ukrenergo grid operator said in a statement.
Russian forces also hit a solar power plant in Dnipropetrovsk region, causing a fire which has since been put out, the Energy Ministry said. Some limits on energy consumption were also put in place in Dnipropetrovsk region on Thursday morning, the officials said.
(Inputs from Reuters)
