Since the middle of February, the massive bombardments on Ukraine had stopped.
The Russian strategy of hitting the energy infrastructure to weaken the morale of the populations ended in failure.
Also faced with the constraints of the war economy, reinforced by the weight of Western economic sanctions, Vladimir Putin's army must also replenish its stocks.
But overnight from Wednesday to Thursday, Moscow rained down a new salvo of missiles.
Officially, this is "
reprisal
" against an incursion by "
Ukrainian saboteurs
in Russian territory.
At least six people lost their lives.
The power supply was cut off in some places.
The site of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant was hit.
After about ten hours of interruption, power was restored.
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This Russian salvo differs from the previous ones.
Ukrainian authorities claimed to have intercepted only 34 of the 81 missiles…
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