KYIV, Feb 18 (Reuters) – Two explosions had been heard in a west Ukrainian metropolis because the nation confronted a brand new Russian missile salvo, native authorities officers stated, with a number of areas limiting electrical energy provide as a precaution for potential strikes on the grid.
Two explosions might be heard within the metropolis of Khmelnytskyi, which lies 170 miles (274 km) west of Kyiv, the regional governor stated.
Shortly after air raid alerts had been issued nationwide on Saturday morning, authorities in a number of southern and jap areas of Ukraine warned of doable precautionary energy outages to restrict injury to the grid in case of a strike.
Russia, which invaded its neighbour almost a 12 months in the past, has been concentrating on Ukraine’s power networks with massed missile salvos since final October.
Vitaliy Kim, the governor of the southern area of Mykolaiv, posted an image on the Telegram messaging app of what gave the impression to be missile particles mendacity in a discipline.
He stated it was prone to be a part of a Ukrainian air defence missile, and indicated that at the very least one Russian missile had been shot down.
“To illustrate this – the rating for shot down missiles has been opened,” he wrote on within the Telegram put up. (Reporting by Max Hunder. Enhancing by Jane Merriman)
