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Russia Rains Missiles Down on Kyiv, Targeting Ukrainian Power Infrastructure

HeadlineDec 13, 2024

Russia has launched a massive missile and drone attack targeting Ukraine’s energy grid, sending Kyiv residents underground to seek shelter in the city’s metros. This is a mother and daughter who were displaced from Kherson due to the war.

Antonina Havrylyuk: “Of course I would rather be going to work and have my child go to school now. But as you can see yourself, an air raid alert was issued, and we had to go to the shelter to hide from the missiles. … It is very difficult, of course. Every night there is an air alarm. My child is always scared.”

On Thursday, Moscow reissued its threat to retaliate against a Ukrainian attack on a southwestern Russian city, which it says involved U.S.-made ATACMS ballistic missiles. Meanwhile, the U.S. says Russia could soon launch another strike using an intermediate-range hypersonic missile that was deployed for the first time last month.

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