“Russia has inensified the attacks on Ukraine. It is a bloody Christmas for Ukraine. Russis is attacking Unkraine in every way and in all the directions.
The enemy is again massively attacking the energy sector,” Ukraine’s Minister of Energy German Galushchenko wrote on the social media platform Telegram.
Ukraine faces its toughest winter of the almost three-year war as Moscow stepped up its aerial bombardment, with its troops advancing on the frontlines in the east.
“The transmission system operator is taking the necessary measures to limit consumption to minimise the negative consequences for the energy system,” he added.
A ballistic missile also struck an apartment building in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih , killing one person and injuring 15, of which, four are serious. “The monsters landed a direct hit on a four-storey residential block with 32 apartments,” the head of the city’s military administration, Oleksandr Vilkul, wrote on Telegram.
