73 out of 90: Ukrainian air defense forces shot down most of the Russian missiles during a massive attack
Kyrylo Tymoshenko, adviser to the head of the OP, said that 15 energy infrastructure facilities were hit. Also in Kryvyi Rih, 566 miners were stuck in 3 mines, the operation to rescue them lasted 4 hours.
On November 15, Russia launched 90 missiles over the territory of Ukraine. Most of them were shot down by Ukrainian air defense forces – about 70. This was told by the adviser to the head of the President’s Office Kyrylo Tymoshenko.
However, 15 energy infrastructure facilities were hit in different regions of Ukraine. As a result, there are power outages in Kyiv, Kyiv, Vinnytsia, Volyn, Donetsk, Zhytomyr, Dnipropetrovsk, Kirovohrad, Lviv, Poltava, Rivne, Sumy, Ternopil, Kharkiv, Khmelnytskyi, Cherkasy, Chernivtsi and Chernihiv regions.
Tymoshenko said that currently 7 million subscribers remain without electricity.
‘If we count people, it’s much more,’ he said.
Ukrainian energy engineers, together with the State Service for Emergency Situations, are now working to turn on electricity as soon as possible, wherever possible.
‘There are various hits, security measures have been taking place for many months at energy facilities in Ukraine. But we still need to wait a few hours, we will have updated information on how the Ukrainian regions will live, in what time frame electricity will be restored,’ said Kyrylo Tymoshenko .
In addition, 566 miners were trapped in 3 mines in Kryvyi Rih due to a Russian missile strike. The rescue operation to rescue them has ended, it lasted more than 4 hours, said the mayor of the city Oleksandr Vilkul.
The Air Force of Ukraine specifies that on November 15 it was possible to shoot down 73 Kalibr cruise missiles, Kh-101, Kh-555 out of more than 90 launched, 10 out of 10 Iranian Shahed-136 drones, as well as an Orion attack drone.
As a reminder, emergency power outages are introduced throughout the territory of Ukraine. Russian warplanes hit Ukrainian infrastructure facilities in Kharkiv, Lviv, Zhytomyr, Khmelnytskyi, Vinnytsia, Kirovohrad, Rivne, Volyn and other regions.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation said that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation fired about 100 missiles at Ukraine, thereby surpassing their previous ‘achievement’, when they hit 84 missiles on October 10.
