Russia launched a rocket barrage that struck critical infrastructure in Ukraine, as the country braces for a much larger missile attack on the first anniversary of the invasion next week
A missile trace is seen in the sky near Kyiv as Russia’s attack on Ukraine continues.Russia launched a rocket barrage that struck critical infrastructure in Ukraine on Thursday, as Kyiv warned that a much larger missile attack on targets across the country was expected on the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion next week.
Ukraine has been steeling itself for stepped-up Russian offensives along the front lines in the east and south, and thewhen the country marks the anniversary of the invasion on Feb. 24. Mr. Danilov said Ukraine has already had to deal with volleys of more than 100 rockets in a single day, and that it would do so again.
Maksym Kozytskyi, governor of the western Lviv region, said on Telegram that three rockets struck a critical-infrastructure facility there and a fire broke out, but that there were no casualties and the blaze was extinguished.. He said that if Russia didn’t pay a heavy price for its actions, it would “constitute a threat not only to our country but to the whole world.”
Russia on Thursday accused Ukraine of launching another attack against Russian-held Crimea, saying that its air defenses on the peninsula it annexed from Ukraine in 2014 had shot down two drones over the Sea of Azov. “Let’s maintain calm,” the Russian-installed governor of Crimea, Mikhail Razvozhaev, said on Telegram.
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