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On the morning of 26 August 2024, Russia carried out its largest [5] series of missile and drone attacks against Ukraine during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, targeting multiple large and important cities including Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipro, Odesa, Kremenchuk, Zaporizhzhia, Vinnytsia, Kropyvnytskyi, Khmelnytskyi, Stryi, and Kryvyi Rih.
During the morning of 17 November 2024, Russia launched a massive air attack on cities across Ukraine, killing two people in Mykolaiv, two in Nikopol, two in Odesa and one person in Lviv. [1] [2] [3] According to the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, about 120 missiles and 90 drones were fired overnight and in the early morning.
The city of Kharkiv has faced frequent attacks since months prior and its energy infrastructure has already been severely damaged. Ukraine has also increased shelling of the Belgorod region. [11] On 19 May 6 people were killed in a Russian strike on the outskirts of Kharkiv, according to the Regional Prosecutor's Office.
Ukraine has stepped up its attacks in the Black Sea and on Crimea, which Russia seized and annexed in 2014. Kyiv has reported a series of strikes on warships on and near Crimea this autumn ...
Three days after the attack the combined heat and power plant Kharkiv TEC-5 was stated to have ceased operation due to the damage it had suffered during the attack. The plant's management said that "the reconstruction process will last more than one year." [8] Kharkiv was forced to rely on other regions of Ukraine for its energy needs. [8]
Ukraine witnessed 1,800 Russian attacks last month with more than 900 clashes seen between Ukrainian border guards and Russian forces, spokesperson for the state border guard service of Ukraine said.
Capture of the transport hub could enable Moscow to open new lines of attack. Zelenskiy said the situation in the east was "very tough", adding that half of Ukraine's brigades there were not equipped.
The attack targeted cities across Ukraine, including Dnipro, Kharkiv, Konotop, Kyiv, Lviv, Odesa, and Zaporizhzhia, in what was possibly the largest aerial attack of the Russian invasion thus far. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Ukrainian Air Force spokesperson Yurii Ihnat said that [ 11 ] "we have never seen so many targets on our monitors at once."