Kyiv, Ukraine. Russia launched airstrikes against energy facilities across Ukraine on Wednesday morning, targeting seven regions with more than 50 missiles and drones, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
The attacks also damaged the railway station and tracks in the city of Kherson, across the Dnieper River from Russian-controlled territory, and wounded two people in Brovary, adjacent to the capital kyiv, officials said.
Russia constantly targets Ukraine’s energy infrastructure. There was a major air attack against energy facilities on April 27 and another a week before.
In a social media post, Zelenskyy noted that Wednesday’s attacks occurred on the day Ukraine observes the end of European fighting in World War II.
“Massive missile attack by Nazi Putin on the Day of Remembrance and Victory over Nazism in World War II,” Zelensky said. “The whole world should clearly understand who is who; “The entire world has no right to give Nazism another chance.”
National power grid operator Ukrenergo said facilities were affected in the Vinnytsia, Zaporizhzhia, Kirovohrad, Poltava and Ivano-Frankivsk regions.
According to regional governor Maksym Kozytskyi, two energy facilities were hit in the Lviv region, which is located in the far west of the country and far from the front lines of combat.