“Objects of critical infrastructure were under Russian attack”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
In the morning, an air alert was announced in the Zhytomyr and Korosten districts of the Zhytomyr region. A setback has already been announced.
On December 23, Russian troops launched a massive attack on Ukraine using several hundred UAVs and 38 missiles. According to the government, energy facilities in the western regions were the most affected during the strike – consumers in the Rivne, Ternopil and Khmelnytsky regions were almost completely cut off, as well as blackouts in Vinnytsia, Chernihiv Oblast, Zhytomyr Oblast and Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk and Kharkiv Oblasts caused by shelling.
On December 22, Ukrzaliznytsia reported that a freight train derailed near Korosten in Zhytomyr Oblast, causing injuries and delaying a number of trains. The freight train was reported to have derailed due to the detonation of a drone, probably of the Shahed type. Since then, a number of passenger trains have been running on the detour route, and restoration work is ongoing.
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The Russian military regularly attacks Ukrainian regions with various types of weapons – attack UAVs, rockets, anti-aircraft missiles, and anti-aircraft missiles.
The leadership of Russia denies that the Russian army during a full-scale war inflicts targeted strikes on the civilian infrastructure of the cities and villages of Ukraine, killing the civilian population and destroying hospitals, schools, kindergartens, energy and water supply facilities.
The Ukrainian authorities and international organizations qualify these strikes as war crimes of the Russian Federation and emphasize that they are purposeful in nature.