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2023 - 3 - 9

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Ukraine war: Why Russia's infrastructure strikes strategy isn't working (BBC News)

This is the first big, coordinated wave of Russian attacks on Ukraine's power infrastructure in almost a month. While there has been some targeting of power ...

The same goes for the S-300 anti-aircraft missile, which was never designed to attack targets on the ground but which has been increasingly used in this role over the course of the past six months. While there has been some targeting of power facilities in recent weeks, this has been the longest gap since the attacks began in early October. This is the first big, coordinated wave of Russian attacks on Ukraine's power infrastructure in almost a month.

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Ukraine war live updates: Power restored at huge nuclear plant after ... (CNBC)

Kyiv and other major cities including Lviv, Kharkiv and Odesa have been hit by a wave of Russian drone and missile strikes overnight, Ukrainian officials ...

"Objects of critical infrastructure are again under the sights of the occupiers," he said, adding that "information about the victims and the scale of the destruction is being clarified." We must continue to provide support to Ukraine," he said as he attended a meeting of EU defence ministers in Stockholm. Russia unleashed a wave of drone and missile attacks across Ukraine overnight, with the capital Kyiv among the cities hit. "This is the largest nuclear power station in Europe. "After which, the participants of OPEC+ will consider the situation and will make new decisions." The Zaporizhzhia station was "de-energized and has gone into blackout mode," Ukrainian nuclear power company Energoatom said earlier on Thursday. The legislation would have called on Georgian organizations that received more than 20% of their funding from abroad to register as "foreign agents" or face potential penalties. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a separate statement that the proposed funding "will make it possible for us to continue to promote U.S. Moscow has previously accused Ukraine of authoring a "terrorist attack" in its region of Bryansk on March 2. Officials in the southern port city of Odesa, Lviv in western Ukraine and Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine also reported drone and missile strikes overnight. Andrii Sadovyy, Lviv city mayor, said on Telegram that "according to preliminary information, drones and missiles flew in our direction." He accused Russia of unleashing "almost all types of their air weapons" from Iranian-made drones to "almost all types of cruise missiles."

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Updates: Russia pounds Ukraine in 'retaliation' for border attack (Aljazeera.com)

News from March 9: Russian missile barrage pounds several cities as Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant temporarily loses power.

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Russian missiles strike cities across Ukraine (Axios)

Russia's military launched a large-scale missile attack on Kyiv and cities across Ukraine on Thursday, killing at least six civilians, according to ...

[Telegram post](https://t.me/V_Zelenskiy_official/5410)Thursday. [Facebook post](https://www.facebook.com/GeneralStaff.ua/posts/pfbid0341C7gCzWp5fZ4WFn7RYHb3rb54N7xdSZTUafCw31g8ZRd7wwhK2YDhJJZHVWFC2ul) that its forces had "repelled attacks" on the key eastern Ukrainian [city of Bakhmut](https://www.axios.com/2023/01/09/ukraine-reinforce-eastern-front) and on surrounding communities on the 379th day of the Russian military invasion. [Shahed drones](https://www.axios.com/2022/10/27/ukraine-russia-war-iran-drones) in total, Ukraine’s Air Force Command said in a [Facebook post](https://www.facebook.com/kpszsu/posts/589916729842946) Thursday. [Telegram post](https://t.me/dnipropetrovskaODA/3506). [AP](https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-russia-war-kyiv-odesa-kharkiv-40714ec02d628a95458594da6ba8a80e)reported. [Telegram post](https://t.me/s/vitaliy_klitschko)that 40% of the capital's residents were without heating following a missile strike.

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Russian missile barrage slams into Ukrainian cities; 6 dead (Associated Press)

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A barrage of more than 80 Russian missiles and a smaller number of exploding drones hit residential buildings and critical ...

Three men and two women were killed in the western region of Lviv after a missile struck a residential area, Gov. Grossi and others have called for the plant to be demilitarized, including the withdrawal of Russian troops. Speaking at the IAEA meeting in Vienna, Russian envoy Mikhail Ulyanov said Moscow supports measures to prevent attacks against the plant. “We went into the yard. The mixture of munitions makes it harder for air defenses to cope with the onslaught, military analysts say. “Then the cars caught fire. nuclear watchdog agency said the Russia-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant lost all external power for 11 hours after its last remaining power line was disconnected following reports of the missile strikes. The Kremlin’s forces started targeting Ukraine’s power supply last October in an apparent attempt to demoralize the civilian population and compel Kyiv to negotiate peace on Moscow’s terms. “We have already shown what Ukraine is capable of,” he said. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the assault that came while many people slept was “another attempt by the terrorist state to wage war against civilization.” [recent incursion](/article/russia-ukraine-war-missile-strike-apartment-building-d2b8fc376956d2bedc44d3a0d711f260) into the Bryansk region of western Russia by what Moscow claimed were Ukrainian saboteurs. The attacks later became less frequent, and analysts speculated that Russia may have been running low on ammunition.

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Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 380 of the ... (The Guardian)

Russian missile strikes on Ukraine leave at least nine dead; UN warn urgent action needed to protect Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant after power lost in attacks.

[Russia](https://www.theguardian.com/world/russia)has introduced personal sanctions against 144 government officials, journalists, lawmakers and other public figures from the three Baltic states – Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania – deemed “most hostile” to Moscow. [At least nine civilians were reported killed.](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/09/ukraine-war-missile-strikes-attacks-hit-kyiv-power-out-odesa-kharkiv)Critical infrastructure and residential buildings in 10 regions were hit, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said. The amendments to the country’s criminal code endorsed by President Alexander Lukashenko envisage death sentences for officials and service personnel who cause “irreparable damage” to Belarus’s national security through acts of treason. [an estimated 100-200 casualties a day](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/09/ukraine-bakhmut-heavy-casualties-russia-war). [Ukraine](https://www.theguardian.com/world/ukraine)in three weeks in the early hours of Thursday, including six hypersonic missiles able to evade air defences. According to Variety, Zelenskiy had been hoping to appear on this Sunday’s telecast following on from previous cultural appearances but the request has been denied.

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Ukraine Is Hit by Russian Missile Barrage Including Hypersonic ... (The Wall Street Journal)

Russia fired dozens of missiles including hypersonic weapons at regions across Ukraine on Thursday, striking civilian infrastructure and the country's ...

Four of the drones and 34 cruise missiles were intercepted, Gen. Valeriy Zaluzhny, the commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s armed forces. Russia fired dozens of missiles including hypersonic weapons at regions across Ukraine on Thursday, striking civilian infrastructure and the country’s defense industry.

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Ukraine war: Russian air strikes cut power at Zaporizhzhia nuclear ... (BBC News)

The electrical power supply at Europe's largest nuclear power plant is lost after Russia launches missiles.

Mr Klitschko said cars were burning in the courtyard of one residential building and he urged people to stay in shelters. "Our defenders repelled attacks on Bakhmut and on surrounding communities." The figures cannot be verified independently. "Each time we are rolling a dice. "The enemy continued its attacks and has shown no sign of a let-up in storming the city of Bakhmut," the general staff of the Ukrainian armed forces said. The attacks hit cities from Kharkiv in the north to Odesa in the south and Zhytomyr in the west.

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