On Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, December 25, Russia launched a massive strike on Ukraine with drones Shahed and cruise missiles from Tu-95MS bombers and Calibers from the Black Sea.
Due to the large-scale missile attack, Ukrenergo began to urgently turn off the lights to preserve the power system, but later electricity began to be restored. Stabilization outages were restored in several regions.
A power engineer was killed during the massive attack, the DTEK company reported. He worked at one of the thermal power plants.
Ukraine was attacked by more than 70 missiles, including ballistic missiles, and more than a hundred attack drones. The target was energy.
The Christmas shelling on Kryvyi Rih
Entire groups of cruise missiles moved in a westerly direction.
Dozens of missiles of various types attacked the eastern and central regions of Ukraine for a long time, there were reports of explosions in Dnipro, Poltava, Kremenchuk, the city of Samar (formerly Novomoskovsk), in the Kirovohrad region, in Zaporizhia, Kryvyi Rih and Svitlovodsk.
Later, new groups of missiles from the south went west through the Cherkasy region and towards the Kyiv region. Some of the missiles went in the direction of Vinnytsia.
Woman rescued from rubble in Kryvyi Rih on the night of December 25.
The missiles also reached Khmelnytskyi region and flew further west towards Ternopil. The Air Force warned that the missiles would attack Burshtyn in Frankivsk region, where an important CHP is located. Local publications wrote about explosions in Burshtyn.
According to the Air Force, one missile flew over Moldova and headed for Chernivtsi. Later, it could have flown even further west.
Another missile, according to the Air Force, headed for Ivano-Frankivsk at 7:30.
The missile threat was lifted at 8:20 a.m., but the attack by the Shaheds lasted longer.
A residential building was destroyed in Kryvyi Rih on Christmas Eve, one person had been killed and many may be under the rubble.
