6 killed as Russia launches main assault on Ukraine – Larger Kashmir

New Delhi, Aug 26: A minimum of six folks have been killed after Russia launched an enormous assault throughout Ukraine, focusing on energy and water provides and inflicting widespread destruction. Explosions have been reported in a number of cities, together with Kyiv, as greater than half of the nation’s areas got here underneath assault.

In line with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Russia launched over 100 missiles and about 100 assault drones in a single day, primarily focusing on “crucial civilian infrastructure” throughout the nation.

In an announcement, Zelensky emphasised that areas resembling Kharkiv, Kyiv, Odesa, and different western areas have been severely impacted. Whereas Ukrainian air defences managed to down 30 drones and missiles over Kyiv, main injury was inflicted on the nation’s vitality services. Restore crews at the moment are working across the clock to revive energy, however the state of affairs stays tense and native residents worry extra assaults.

Ukraine’s Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal confirmed that 15 areas have been attacked, with drones, cruise missiles, and Kinzhal hypersonic missiles—a lot tougher to intercept—getting used within the assault. Shmyhal famous that the nation’s vitality infrastructure was one of many primary targets, with emergency energy cuts.

These newest assaults seem like one other try by Moscow to disrupt Ukraine’s vitality provides forward of the winter. Since March, Russia has broken dozens of vitality services, ensuing within the lack of half of Ukraine’s electrical energy technology capability and about 80% of its thermal energy technology capability. Energy outages have been reported in lots of Ukrainian cities, and water provides have been disrupted.

In response to those escalating assaults, Ukrainian leaders are as soon as once more urging their Western allies to offer long-range weapon methods and grant permission to make use of them on Russian soil. Shmyhal argued that Ukraine wants the potential to strike on the areas from which these assaults are being launched.

Amidst the violence, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov introduced that ceasefire negotiations with Ukraine have “just about misplaced their relevance.” He acknowledged that Russia is responding to Ukraine’s current incursion into the Kursk area, dismissing any present chance of peace talks.

Simply two days in the past, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was in Ukraine, assembly with President Zelensky. Throughout his go to, Modi emphasised that dialogue, not warfare, is the one method ahead to convey peace to the area.

He expressed India’s readiness to do no matter it will possibly to assist restore peace. Nevertheless, with Russia’s newest actions and the Kremlin’s stance on negotiations, the prospects for a peaceable decision appear more and more distant.

Because the state of affairs continues to evolve, one other air raid alert has been issued for Kyiv, and residents are being urged to hunt shelter.