On November 8, Kiev officials said that Russia had launched unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and missiles into many areas of Ukraine, targeting transformer stations supplying electricity to two nuclear power plants, killing seven people.
Russia has once again targeted transformer stations supplying electricity to nuclear power plants in Khmelnytskyi and Rivne, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha posted on X.
Andrii Sybiha asserted that this was a planned attack and not an accident. Russia is deliberately endangering nuclear safety in Europe, the minister added.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the Russian airstrike on November 8 included 450 UAVs and 45 missiles.
In addition to Khmelnytskyi and Rivne, energy facilities in Kiev, Poltava, Kharkiv were also damaged, causing thousands of people to lose power and water, according to Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko.
On the same day, Russian Foreign Ministry mobile ambassador Rodin Miroshnik affirmed that Russia attacks Ukrainian military enterprises, not the people.
"The current attack is not aimed at the population, but at the military potential, the potential of the military industrial complex. Therefore, the main consequences must be found there. And then there are indirect impacts, Miroshnik told local television.
The Ambassador said that Russia does not aim to make the lives of Ukrainians unbearable. Russia is attacking the energy sector, which is used to provide military capabilities and logistics, because Ukrainian trains run on electricity.
