People died in their homes, in Ukraine, burned alive hundreds of kilometers from the front just before the alarm went off. When the president was in Istanbul Zelensky and the president of Türkiye Erdoğan they seek a new path to peace, massacre Ternopil It was the most serious attack in a terrible night of Russian attacks that saw Romanian and Polish warplanes take off again due to new flight risks: at least 25 people died in destroyed buildings, and there were still seriously injured victims and teams working among the rubble.
The air in the city, in Ternopil, was unbreathable: other explosions had caused a large leak of chlorine into the atmosphere. But a wave of 470 attack drones and 48 cruise and ballistic missiles hit across Ukraine overnight and this morning: Fly sending them to further destroy energy infrastructure in western Ukraine, causing emergency power outages. But in Ternopil, a missile hit a nine-story building on Kvitnia Street, destroying several floors and causing a fire: the flames and destruction prevented many people from escaping. Rescuers described a horrific scene, and said the fire spread too quickly for survivors to escape. The entrance to the building was filled with toxic smoke, blocking escape routes while the fire entered the still-standing apartments, killing even those who escaped the missile’s direct impact.
The horror of war, another conflict that has not subsided in these three years and nine months. “Russian forces launched massive strikes with long-range, precision-guided, air- and sea-launched weapons, including Kinzhal hypersonic missiles, against defense industry and energy facilities supporting Ukrainian operations,” Russian Defense said in a statement. The attack, Moscow said, “hit a remote drone depot in western Ukraine” and was “revenge for Ukrainian terrorist attacks on civilian facilities on Russian territory”.
The technique is ordinary: a cloud of drones to attack air defenses, then missiles are sent to hit the main target. The threat loomed over Ukrainian skies all night and this morning too, with explosions almost everywhere apart from those in Ternopil, Burshtyn and Lviv in the west of the country; in Kiev and Kharkiv regions, and from Mikolaiv to Chernihiv and Dnipro regions. It was already morning when the Kalibr cruise missile was launched from the Black Sea, and other missiles were fired from Tu-95MS and Tu-160 strategic bombers, as well as MiG-31K. The Ministry of Energy had to carry out emergency power outages in a number of areas, initially mainly in the western region, but soon the power outages spread throughout the country, along with restrictions that were already in effect on the industrial sector and economic activities.
“Every bold attack on normal life shows that pressure on Russia is not enough,” President Zelensky said, calling for sanctions and aid: “The first need is air defense missiles, additional systems and an increase in the capabilities of our fighter aircraft.
Once again, Ukraine’s energy infrastructure and weapons industry are of concern to Russia, following a strategy Moscow has been pursuing for weeks; but residential buildings are also affected. At Ternopil, it was one of the cruise missiles launched by a strategic bomber that hit the massacre palace. It was seven in the morning when the first news and images of fires and thick smoke in various areas of the city appeared on social media, and a second series of attacks occurred again moments later. Based on initial findings, “warehouses and industrial buildings” were also destroyed. Any military targets hit were never recorded – this is prohibited for security reasons – but the level of chlorine in the air had exceeded the tolerable limit by “six orders of magnitude”, making it unbreathable. The destroyed buildings contained several dozen injured people, and in total there were more than 60 injured people in the city, including at least 14 children. The mayor of Ternopil, Serhiy Nadal, said that Russia attacked the city with missiles and drones: since 6.40 there have been at least 5 powerful explosions.
The night attack in Ukraine began with a drone strike Kharkovin the eastern part of the country, and then spread westward causing widespread power outages. In Kharkiv, 19 drones struck two districts, injuring 46 people, including two children, and damaging civilian buildings and warehouses, supermarkets and gyms, as well as cars and trolleybuses… In Lviv, clouds of smoke rose from warehouses, and power plants and factories were hit. In the Carpathians there was an explosion at Burshtyn, with three people injured and an energy detachment. In the region Cherkassy several power cables were down and some houses were damaged. Explosions in several cities and other areas.
