According to the Ukrainian Air Force, Russia fired 81 missiles and eight drones at Ukraine in the night’s attack. Ukraine shot down 34 missiles and four suicide drones. That is written by Reuters. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that the authorities in Moscow must be held responsible for the new attacks. – The occupiers can only terrorize the civilians. That’s all they can do. But that will not help them, writes Zelenskyj on Telegram and states that critical infrastructure and residential areas have been hit by rockets in 10 of Ukraine’s regions last night. Ukraine’s second largest city, Kharkiv, is blacked out. According to AFP, the city is without electricity, water and heating after the night’s attack. The city is said to have been hit by 15 Russian rocket attacks, according to the city’s mayor, Ihor Terekhov. – There is no electricity in the entire city. We have switched to generators at critical infrastructure. Electric-powered transport does not work. There is no heat or water supply, Terekhov told local news. A total of six people have been reported killed. The Lviv region is the hardest hit, where five people have been killed, CNN reports. The governor of the region, Maksym Kozytskyi, first reported that four people had been found dead after a rocket hit their home. Now a fifth person has been found dead in the ruins of the residential area in the district of Zolotshivskyi where the rockets are said to have hit. man Rescuers are working to see if there may be more people trapped in the ruins. In Kyiv, two people are said to be injured and sent to hospital after a new explosion in the west of the city, according to the city’s mayor Vitali Klitschko. AFP writes that around 40 percent of the capital’s population will be without heating as a result of the attacks. According to CNN, approximately 15 percent of the capital is without power. Kyiv’s population in the morning hours after the attacks from Russia. Photo: GLEB GARANICH / Reuters In southern Ukraine, the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has been disconnected from the power grid. According to the country’s nuclear power operator, Energoatom, the plant is now operated by 18 different diesel generators that have enough fuel to operate for ten days. This is written by the AFP news agency. The nuclear power plant is under Russian control. The Russian management at the plant calls the interruption of power supply a “Ukrainian provocation”. Tormod Heier, head of research at the Norwegian Defense Academy, believes this causes great concern and uneasiness among the authorities in Kyiv and Washington DC – There is a telephone line between the military authorities in Washington and Moscow. It has only been used once before as far as I know, and that was when Russian missiles got a little too close to these nuclear power plants. So there is little doubt that this causes concern for all parties, says Heier, who was a guest on Nyhetsmorgen this morning to talk about the hard battles in Bakhmut. Smoke spread over the sky of Kyiv after Russian attacks last night. Photo: STRINGER / Reuters Attacks in several places in the country A loud explosion is said to have been heard in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv early Thursday morning, writes the online newspaper The Kyiv Independent. On his official Telegram account, Klitschko writes that there have been several explosions in the Holosiivsky district, south of the city. Three Russian rockets were launched toward Ukraine from Russia’s Belgorod region seen at dawn in Kharkiv, Ukraine, early Thursday, March 9, 2023. Photo: Vadim Belikov/AP Early Thursday morning, rockets hit energy infrastructure and damaged residential buildings in the Odesa region, according to Governor Maksym Marchchenko. – Fortunately, there were no injuries. The power supply is currently reduced. Our air defense systems shot down some of the rockets, Martchenko says on the Telegram platform. He added that another rune of rockets could be coming, and asked the city’s residents to stay safe. Aircraft alert in several regions In addition, there are reports of explosions in the cities of Kirovohrad, Dnipropetrovsk region, southern Mykolajiv region, Poltava, Lviv, Vinnytsia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ternopil region, according to the online newspaper The Kyiv Independent. The flight alert went off in thirteen regions of Ukraine on the night of Thursday, and people were urged to get to safety, Ukraine Now reported on the Telegram platform. A Ukrainian soldier targets Russian forces with a 105 mm howitzer near the city of Bakhmut, March 8, 2023 Photo: ARIS MESSINIS / AFP Will not meet Putin Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy cannot imagine a situation in which he will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin. – There is no reason to talk to the Russian president, because he does not keep his word, Zelenskyj told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer when he was asked what it would take to bring about such a meeting. – We have no confidence in him, Zelenskyy added. – Russia should get out of our territory. After that, we can use diplomatic tools, he says to CNN.
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