“Most regions” of Ukraine were hit by power outages Thursday night after the morning’s fresh Russian barrage of fire targeted the country’s electrical infrastructure, its President Volodymyr Zelenskyy lamented.
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“There are power outages in most parts of Ukraine tonight. It is especially difficult in the Kyiv region and in the capital itself, in the Lviv region, in Odessa, in Kherson and its environs, in Vinnytsia and Zakarpattia,” he said in his daily address on social networks.
According to him, “each of these missile strikes only sinks Russia deeper into a stalemate.”
“They have fewer and fewer missiles,” he argued, without giving exact numbers.
On the Eastern Front, where the fighting is very fierce, the “most critical” situation is observed around “Bakhmout and Soledar” in the Donetsk region, Mr. Zelenskyi also specified.
Since the summer, the Russian army has been trying in vain to conquer the city of Bakhmout, which had a population of more than 70,000 before the war.
The Ukrainians are currently conducting an offensive 70 km northeast of Bakhmout towards Kreminna in hopes of recapturing this city that had fallen into Russian hands.
“The enemy did not give up the crazy idea of capturing the Donetsk region. Now they are setting themselves a goal: the New Year,” Volodymyr Zelenskyy lamented on Thursday evening, two days before the transition to 2023.