According to the Ukrainian Air Force, Russia fired 81 missiles and eight drones at Ukraine. Ukraine shot down 34 missiles and four suicide drones. That is written by Reuters. 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. According to Zelensky’s chief of staff, three people have lost their lives in Kherson after Russian rockets hit a public transport stop. AFP reports. A total of nine people have been reported killed as a result of the attacks. The Lviv region is the hardest hit, where five people have been killed, CNN reports. Kyiv’s population in the morning hours after the attacks from Russia. Photo: GLEB GARANICH / Reuters Kharkiv without electricity 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. Kharkiv 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 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. In southern Ukraine, the Zaporizhzhya 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”. Smoke spread over the sky of Kyiv after Russian attacks last night. Photo: STRINGER / Reuters – Causing concern Tormod Heier, head of research at the Norwegian Defense Academy, believes this is causing great concern and unrest 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. 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. 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. The launch of three missiles from Russia’s Belgorod region seen at dawn in Kharkiv, Ukraine. 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. In addition, there are reports of explosions in the cities of Kirovohrad, Dnipropetrovsk region, southern Mykolaiv 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 Russia: – Attack was retaliation The Russian government describes Thursday’s attack against Ukraine as “massive retaliation”. It is Russia’s Ministry of Defense that makes this claim on Thursday. Russia claimed last week that a group of Ukrainians entered the Bryansk region of the country, which the Ukrainian authorities have denied. The adviser to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that the claim was a provocation to justify the attack on Ukraine. The Russian military claims that the photo shows the launch of a so-called Kinzjal missile during an exercise in 2018. Photo: AP Both the Russian and Ukrainian militaries say that hypersonic missiles of the Kinzjal type are among those used in the attack. Believes the attacks are connected to the battle for Bakhmut Senior defense analyst at the Norwegian Foreign Policy Institute (Nupi), Per Erik Solli, tells news that this missile attack was unusually strong. – The massive Russian attacks with long-range weapons come very rarely. They have far too little ammunition in stock to be able to deliver such large quantities of weapons every week. Solli believes that these attacks may be connected to the fact that Bakhmut “is now facing a fall”. Per Erik Solli is a senior defense analyst at Nupi. Photo: Onar Digernes Aase NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg warned on Wednesday that Bakhmut could fall within a few days. In that case, this will be a great symbolic victory for Russia. – I think that they want to possibly have a massive campaign now coordinated with a city in eastern Ukraine possibly ending up in Russian hands, says Solli. – It is then to appear as a strong military power, especially towards its own population.
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