Russia launched another large-scale drone and missile attack against Ukrainian cities overnight on March 22, targeting Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, and Kryvyi Rih, primarily aiming at the energy infrastructure.
Attacks were also reported in Khmelnytskyi, Odesa, Mykolaiv, Vinnytsia, Kirovohrad, Lviv, Sumy, Poltava, and Ivano-Frankivsk oblasts.
Regional authorities said that there were at least five killed and 31 injured among the casualties reported so far.
“The enemy launched one of the largest attacks on the Ukrainian energy sector in recent weeks,” Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko wrote on Facebook.
“The goal is not just to damage it, but, just like last year, to cause a large-scale disruption in the country’s energy system.” Russian forces launched a campaign of mass strikes against Ukraine’s power grid in late 2022 and early 2023 but failed to put it out of action.
Is this a revenge from those oil refinery attacks on Russian soil?
No, it’s not. Russians tried to damage Ukrainian critical infrastructure one year ago as well when Ukraine didn’t touch their territory and factories.
No. Just standard operating procedure for Russia.