Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has ordered preemptive attacks on facilities Russia is using for its war, as Kyiv expands its drone campaign against Russian energy infrastructure in an attempt to force Moscow into talks.
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"I instructed our intelligence services and military to act preemptively against facilities Russia uses to expand its war effort," Zelenskiy said in his evening address on Wednesday.
The directive comes as Ukrainian drones knocked out power in Sevastopol, the largest city in Russian-annexed Crimea, on Wednesday, with the Russian-installed governor saying trolleybuses would not operate and parents should keep children at home as work continued to restore supplies. Ukraine's drone forces commander Robert Brovdi said drones had hit the main substation at the Sevastopol power plant.
