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The large-scale airstrike hit several sites in western Ukraine, approaching the borders with NATO member countries.
By Constant Méheut
Reporting from Kyiv, Ukraine
Russian forces struck several Ukrainian power facilities with drones and missiles early Saturday, in a major airstrike that targeted cities across the country, including some near borders with NATO members.
Ukraine’s air force said Russia fired 53 missiles at its territory, shooting down two-thirds of them and they were heading toward the western regions of Transcarpathia and Lviv, which border Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, countries that are part of the Russian military. . The Polish military said its fighter jets and those of other allies had been sent to its borders in case a Russian weapon crossed them, as it has in the past.
Saturday’s attack was the sixth Russian attack on power facilities in Ukraine since March, part of a broader crusade aimed at cutting off power to large portions of the country and making civilian lives miserable.
The missile barrage, which a senior Ukrainian official said wounded about 20 more people and targeted a part of the country less affected by the war, may simply add urgency to Kyiv’s recent appeals to allies to help their vulnerable regions. a week in which several NATO allies expressed approval of Ukraine’s limited firing of Western weapons against Russia, culminating in the United States on Thursday.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview with The New York Times last month that if Ukraine’s western neighbors shot down Russian missiles that reach their own borders — their planes cross Ukrainian airspace — it would ease the burden on Ukraine’s crisis-facing military. shortage of ammunition and air defense weapons.
“Technically, all of this is possible,” Zelensky said. Shoot down Russian missiles that are already on Ukrainian territory, from their planes. “
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