The Ministry of Defense confirmed strikes on energy facilities in Ukraine

On Saturday, January 14, a missile attack was carried out on the military command and control system of Ukraine and related energy facilities, the press service of the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

“All designated targets have been hit. Target achieved,” says in the daily report of the military department.

The Ministry of Defense announced the attacks on targets in Ukraine the next day, after the authorities of a neighboring state told about it. As Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Kyrylo Tymoshenko reported on Saturday morning in his Telegram channel, critical infrastructure facilities came under fire in Kyiv. In addition, according to him, in the Kyiv region in the morning, the village of Kopylov also came under fire, and a hit in a residential area was recorded.

Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko also reported on explosions in the Dnipro district of the capital. In addition, fragments of a rocket fell on non-residential territory in the Goloseevsky district, there were no casualties, the head of the city said. In the Dnieper, a residential building was partially destroyed, it was reported about the wounded and the dead. By data Tymoshenko, 21 people are known to have died, including one child.

The Ministry of Defense also reported on air and artillery strikes on brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the regions of the Kharkiv region and the Luhansk People’s Republic.

In addition, the department reported that the assault detachments, in cooperation with the Airborne Forces units, with the support of army aviation, missile troops and artillery, “developed success” in the direction of the northern outskirts of Artemovsk (Bakhmut) of the DPR and the Sol railway station. “In the course of hostilities, more than 80 Ukrainian servicemen, two tanks, three armored combat vehicles and three vehicles were destroyed in a day,” the report says.