A barrage of bombings shook Ukraine overnight, also hitting the capital Kiev and the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, where the situation according to the EU is "very dangerous".
At least 11 victims.
Bombings which, according to the Ukrainian Foreign Minister, Dmytro Kuleba, had no military objectives but were simply the fruit of
"Russian barbarism
"
.
According to the Kiev armed forces,
'six of the 81 missiles fired by Russian forces were the hypersonic Kinzhal'.
The alarm on the nuclear power plant.
The European Commission underlined that "occupying a civilian power plant is against all international agreements and creates a very dangerous situation".
EU Energy Commissioner Kadri Simson reported that she is "in contact" with Ukrainian Energy Minister German Galushchenko "to support Ukraine's energy system".
In the afternoon, the two will have an interview via video call.
Even the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, warned of the risks associated with repeated power outages in the Ukrainian nuclear power plant of Zaporizhzhia, which was left without electricity due to night bombing and where emergency diesel generators were activated to ensure minimum power to the plant.
The destruction in Lviv after the bombing
The bombings, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, affected 10 regions.
"It was a difficult night. Massive rocket attack across the country. Kiev, Kirovohrad, Dnipro, Odessa, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Zhytomyr, Vinnytsia regions. Attacks on critical infrastructure and residential buildings. Sadly there are wounded and dead. My condolences to the families," he wrote on Telegram.
"All services are working. The energy system is being restored. Restrictions have been imposed in all regions," he concluded
"No military goals, just Russian barbarism,"
wrote Kuleba describing the attack.
"The day will come when Putin and his collaborators will be held accountable for their actions by a special court," he added.
A reconstruction rejected by Moscow
.
"High-precision long-range air-, sea- and land-launched weapons, including Kinzhal hypersonic missiles, have
hit critical targets
of military infrastructure, military-industrial complex enterprises and the energy facilities that power them," in Ukraine, he said the Russian Defense Ministry, cited by the RIA Novosti news agency.
The tough battle at Bakhmut also continues.
The head of Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, quoted by Moscow news agencies said that Russian forces had taken control of another village near the city.
This is Dubovo-Vasilevka, located northwest of Bakhmut.
Ukraine, with Kiev soldiers in a trench near Bakhmut
NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg arriving at the informal defense council in Stockholm on Wednesday, had not ruled out the possibility that the city symbol of Ukrainian resistance could fall "in the next few days".
Stoltenberg: 'We do not exclude that Bakhmut could fall in the next few days'