IT’S quite clearly an attempt to test Ukrainian resolve in the cold winter months. For many weeks now, Russia’s missile and kamikaze drone campaign has targeted Ukraine’s power infrastructure, but the intensity of last Friday’s strikes was unprecedented.
Such was the scale of the Russian onslaught that UKrenergo, the state power company declared a “system emergency” and nationwide “blackout,” citing a staggering 50% loss of power within Ukraine’s electricity system.
With at least 70 rockets fired at several regions, the country’s second largest city Kharkiv was left without power. In the capital Kyiv, Ukrainian air defence said it had had shot down 37 of about 40 missiles that entered the city’s airspace.
