{"id":55522,"date":"2024-12-26T03:01:39","date_gmt":"2024-12-26T03:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innodebt.com\/?p=55522"},"modified":"2024-12-26T03:01:40","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T03:01:40","slug":"russia-launches-christmas-day-attack-on-ukraines-energy-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/innodebt.com\/?p=55522","title":{"rendered":"Russia launches Christmas Day attack on Ukraine\u2019s energy system"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Stay informed with free updates<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__content-sign-up-topic-description\"><span>Simply sign up to the <!-- -->War in Ukraine<!-- --> myFT Digest &#8212; delivered directly to your inbox.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"article__content-sign-up-iframe close\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"signUpIframe\" data-prev-url=\"\/register\/in-article-sign-up?ft-content-uuid=b7b2c8d9-8eed-4620-adfe-a99e696a1dd4&amp;concept-id=8b9c78a1-2a6d-4e2f-9293-49f399f4f6ce\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>Russia has carried out a Christmas Day attack on Ukraine\u2019s energy system, leaving more than half a million people without heating, water and electricity.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the attack, the 13th large-scale assault of 2024 on the country\u2019s grid, was \u201cdeliberate\u201d and not a coincidence. \u201cWhat could be more inhuman?\u201d he wrote on X. <\/p>\n<p>About 50 of the 70 missiles fired in the attack were intercepted, along with a \u201csignificant\u201d portion of the more than 100 attack drones deployed, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Oleh Syniehubov, governor of Ukraine\u2019s eastern Kharkiv region, told Ukraine\u2019s national television news that the attack had left more than 500,000 people without heating, water and electricity. <\/p>\n<p>In a statement released by the White House, US President Joe Biden said: \u201cThe Ukrainian people deserve to live in peace and safety, and the United States and the international community must continue to stand with Ukraine until it triumphs over Russia\u2019s aggression.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Biden added that he had directed the Department of Defense \u201cto continue its surge of weapons deliveries to Ukraine\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Heating supplies were also cut in some areas of Ukraine\u2019s Ivano-Frankivsk and Dnipropetrovsk regions, in the west and south of the country.\u00a0Temperatures across Ukraine are around freezing point. <\/p>\n<p>Ukraine\u2019s energy grid operator, Ukrenergo, urged consumers to limit consumption by not switching on multiple appliances at once, adding that the system was still recovering from the previous Russian attack on December 13.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine\u2019s largest private energy company, DTEK, said that its power stations had been damaged and one of its long-term employees killed.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine\u2019s foreign minister, Andriy Sybiha, said on X that the attack reflects Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s response to \u201cthose who spoke about illusionary \u2018Christmas ceasefire\u2019\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>This year Ukrainians marked Christmas Day on December 25 for the second time, after switching to the western Gregorian calendar last year. The decision to stop celebrating Christmas on January 7 in line with the Orthodox calendar was made by Kyiv to break with Russian influence.<\/p>\n<p>Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n said last week that Zelenskyy had rejected his proposal for a ceasefire and prisoner exchange on the January 7 Orthodox Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine denied that such a proposal was ever on the table, asking Hungary to \u201crefrain from manipulations\u201d regarding the war. On Friday, Heorhii Tykhyi, spokesperson for Ukraine\u2019s foreign ministry, described it as \u201cPR, a move\u201d by Orb\u00e1n.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/b7b2c8d9-8eed-4620-adfe-a99e696a1dd4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest &#8212; delivered directly to your inbox. 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