UA shoots down 37 of 50 drones as Russia targets energy systems in 4 oblasts in latest mass attack
Russia launched the latest of its mass missile and drone terror attacks on Ukraine overnight on April 11, with Ukraine managing to neutralize 37 of 40 Shahed-136/131 attack drones, the Ukrainian military’s General Staff reported.
Information on the type of missiles used and which were intercepted is still being clarified, they said.
There are civilian dead and wounded, they reported, without providing numbers.
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Before the mass attack, which featured Russian Kinzhal “Dagger” hypersonic missiles fired at Lviv Oblast, it is known that Russia carried out eight missile and 93 air strikes throughout the days, as well as shelling Ukrainian military positions and population centers 78 times.
Russia’s April 11 mass attack on Ukraine
Russia launched another mass attack on Ukraine using Shahed kamikaze drones, cruise missiles launched from Tu-95MS aircraft, and Kinzhal hypersonic missiles and guided air missiles from Su-34 jets overnight on April 11.
At least 10 strikes were carried out in Kharkiv and area, causing more challenges to the city’s electrical grid.
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Lviv Oblast, especially the city of Stryi less than 150 km from NATO territory in Poland, cam under heavy combined blows.
Explosions were heard in Zaporizhzhya.
A critical infrastructure object was attacked in Kyiv Oblast, causing a fire, the local military administration reported.
Russia attacked energy infrastructure in at least four oblasts – Kyiv, Lviv, Zaporizhzhya, and Kharkiv, announced Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko.
Two DTEK thermal power plants were seriously damaged.
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