Russia Thursday night rained down bombs on various parts of Ukraine during nearly 160 overnight airstrikes, including a hypersonic air-launched ballistic missile.
Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief Valeriy Zaluzhnyi said in a statement on Telegram that Russia carried out a massive air attack on the country’s industrial and military targets last night.
Zaluzhnyi claimed that 158 airstrikes were detected by Ukrainian radars, with 114 successfully repelled.
According to Zaluzhnyi, the Russian armed forces targeted critical infrastructure and military industry.
The Ukrainian military chief highlighted that attacks were carried out from the Astrakhan, Belgorod, and Kursk regions, including with hypersonic Kinzhal missiles.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a separate statement that Russia launched 110 missiles targeting objects in the Dnipro, Kharkiv, Kyiv, Lviv, Odesa, and Zaporizhzhia regions.
Both Zaluzhnyi and Zelenskyy stated that people were killed and injured in the attacks, but did not provide specific figures, whereas the Lviv region authorities said one person was killed and 13 were injured in the attacks.
“According to preliminary results, the opponent used 158 means of air attack against Ukraine that night: missiles of various types and attack drones. The forces and means of the (Ukrainian) Air Force, in cooperation with units of the Ukrainian Defense Forces, destroyed 27 Shahed-136/131 attack drones and 87 X-101/X-555/X-55 cruise missiles,” he said.
In another development Russia has devised an alternate plan to deal with the situation if the West tries to confiscate its frozen money through a “pseudo-legal” system that would violate the basic parameters of the international economy, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday, without disclosing countermeasures.
“No US legal theory” concerning the confiscation of Russian assets can be legitimate, and it can only be “pseudo-legal,” Peskov said at a press conference in Moscow while commenting on media reports claiming that the US suggested the world’s seven major economies, or G-7, confiscate Russia’s frozen funds.
The Russian government has planned possible retaliatory measures in advance, he said.
“Understanding the complete unpredictability of our counterparties and their tendency to violate international law and other laws, including their national ones, understanding their tendency to self-destruction, I mean the destruction of the modern economic system, undermining confidence in the basic postulates of the global economic system, … we analyzed possible retaliatory steps in advance. And we will do everything so that it best suits our interests,” he stressed. AA
