Russia unleashes new barrage across Ukraine as grain export deal is extended
LA TimesRussian airstrikes targeted Ukraine’s energy facilities again Thursday as the first snow of the season fell in Kyiv, a harbinger of the hardship to come if Moscow’s missiles continue to take out power and gas plants as winter descends. In eastern Ukraine, Russia “launched a massive attack on gas production infrastructure,” Oleksiy Chernishov, head of the state energy company Naftogaz, said in a statement. Russian strikes also hit the central city of Dnipro and Ukraine’s southern Odesa region for the first time in weeks. The head of Ukraine’s presidential office, Andriy Yermak, called the strikes on energy targets “naive tactics of cowardly losers” in a Telegram post Thursday. Maksym Marchenko said on Telegram, warning of the threat of a “massive missile barrage on the entire territory of Ukraine.” Elsewhere, a Russian strike that hit a residential building killed at least four people overnight in Vilnia in the Zaporizhzhia region.