{"id":414931,"date":"2023-03-09T09:09:11","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T06:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=414931"},"modified":"2023-03-09T09:20:39","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T06:20:39","slug":"russia-unleashes-massive-missile-barrage-on-ukraine-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/russia-unleashes-massive-missile-barrage-on-ukraine-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia unleashes massive missile barrage on Ukraine cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-410 p Component-p-0-2-400\">KYIV, Ukraine (SONNA) \u2014 Russia unleashed a massive missile barrage on cities across Ukraine early Thursday, targeting energy infrastructure facilities in the first attack on such a scale in three weeks. Ukrainian officials said residential buildings were hit but didn\u2019t immediately say if there were casualties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-410 p Component-p-0-2-400\">Air raid sirens wailed for hours across Ukraine, including the capital, Kyiv, where residents were jolted out of bed by explosions. It was not immediately clear how many missiles had struck targets in Kyiv, or whether the sounds were missiles being intercepted by defense systems, which were activated in multiple regions of the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-410 p Component-p-0-2-400\">Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said explosions were reported in the city\u2019s Holosiivskyi district and emergency services were heading there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-410 p Component-p-0-2-400\">In eastern Ukraine, 15 missiles struck Kharkiv and the outlying northeastern region, hitting residential buildings, according to Kharkiv Gov. Oleh Syniehubov. He promised to reveal more details about the scale of the damage or any casualties in Ukraine\u2019s second-largest city.<\/p>\n<div class=\"taboola_readmore\">\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-410 p Component-p-0-2-400\">\u201cObjects of critical infrastructure is again in the crosshairs of the occupants,\u201d he said in a Telegram post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-410 p Component-p-0-2-400\">Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov reported on Telegram that there were \u201cproblems with electricity\u201d in some parts of the city.<\/p>\n<div class=\"Component-hubPeekEmbed-0-2-408 HubPeek noBorderBottom-0-2-193 compressedEmbed-0-2-194 hubPeekMain\" data-card-id=\"afs:Card:521103274690\">\n<div class=\"hubPeekContainerWide-0-2-412\" data-key=\"feed-card-hub-peak\">\n<div class=\"title-0-2-413\">\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-410 p Component-p-0-2-400\">The governor of the southern Odesa region, Maksym Marchenko, also reported strikes on Odesa, saying that energy facilities and residential buildings were hit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-410 p Component-p-0-2-400\">\u201cThe second wave is expected right now, so I ask the residents of the region to stay in shelters!\u201d Marchenko wrote on Telegram a little over two hours ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-410 p Component-p-0-2-400\">Ukrainian Railways reported power outages in certain areas. Five trains were delayed by more than one hour, and 10 trains were delayed by more than 30 minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-410 p Component-p-0-2-400\">Preventive emergency power cuts were applied in Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk and Odesa regions, supplier DTEK said. Klitschko says 15% of the capital\u2019s energy consumers were without power due to the emergency power cuts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-410 p Component-p-0-2-400\">More explosions were reported in the northern city of Chernihiv and the western Lviv region, as well as in the cities of Dnipro, Lutsk and Rivne. Ukrainian media also report explosions in the western regions of Ivano-Frankivsk and Ternopil.<\/p>\n<div data-key=\"media-placeholder\">\n<div class=\"JWPlayer\">\n<div>\n<div id=\"JwPlayer-40714ec02d628a95458594da6ba8a80e-7VvMbHy3\" class=\"jwplayer jw-reset jw-state-idle jw-stretch-uniform jw-flag-aspect-mode jw-breakpoint-5 jw-floating-dismissible jw-flag-user-inactive\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"application\" aria-label=\"Video Player\" aria-describedby=\"jw-JwPlayer-40714ec02d628a95458594da6ba8a80e-7VvMbHy3-shortcuts-tooltip-explanation\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Component-dfp-0-2-404 apnews_article_midarticle_1\" data-card-id=\"sovrn-article-midarticle\"><strong><em>Source: AP<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KYIV, Ukraine (SONNA) \u2014 Russia unleashed a massive missile barrage on cities across Ukraine early Thursday, targeting energy infrastructure facilities in the first attack on such a scale in three weeks. Ukrainian officials said residential buildings were hit but didn\u2019t immediately say if there were casualties. 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