Russia continues attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure

Russia has carried out new attacks, damaging energy infrastructure in five regions of Ukraine on 1 June, Ukrainian officials announced.

Energy facilities were damaged in the Donjeck regions in the east, Zaporijas in the southeast, in Dnepropetrovsk, as well as in the central Kirovohrad and western Ivano-Francvisk region, Ukraine's energy network operator Ukrenho said.

This morning, the Russians carried out another attack on Ukraine's energy facilities. Since March, six major missile attacks have been conducted and with fears against civil energy infrastructure”, Ukrenerho said.

DTEK, Ukraine's largest electricity production company, said that during the attack two of its thermal power plants were hit and that its equipment was heavily damaged”. DTEK did not reveal where those objects were.

Russia has stepped up anti-civil infrastructure bombings in Ukraine since March, destroying most of its power plants and plants. As a result, there have been reductions of electricity and imports of electricity in record quantities.

Earlier, the Ukraine Air Force reported that their counteraircrafts ousted 35 of the 53 Russian missiles and 46 of the 47 Russians.

Russian “Terrorists do not give up their intention to destroy the country's energy sector. The Ukrainian Air Force and Defence are doing everything possible not to allow the enemy to achieve its goal at every corner of thefront”, said Ukraine Air Force Commander General Mykola Olechuk.

Regional officials reported that firefighters are fighting fires in some areas following Saturday's attacks. No casualties reported.

The new Russian attacks were carried out two days after US President Joe Biden gave Ukraine permission to use American weapons to carry out attacks inside Russia, but only for limited purposes to protect Harkiv.

In an interview for REL in the margins of NATO foreign ministers meeting in Prague, Secretary General NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, said the change in US position is <x0 legal>”, because Ukraine is defending itself, especially in the town of Harkiv, located only 35 km from Ukraine's border with Russia.

So far, the Ukrainian Army has not been able to strike with Western weapons Russian forces who have gathered on Russian territory near the Ukrainian border because the US and several other Western allies of Ukraine were worried they would scale the war.

The right to self-defence includes the right to hit limits on aggressor territory. And that's exactly what Ukraine must be able to do, said Stoltenberg. / REL