Cover image: Residents carry water in Bakhmout, eastern Ukraine, on February 10, 2023. LIBKOS / AP
- Russia carried out an attack on Friday February 10 “massive” against energy sites in Ukraine. According to the Ukrainian authorities, the Russian army on Friday fired 71 projectiles, of which 61 were shot down. These were Kh-101, Kh-555, Kalibr cruise missiles, as well as Shahed explosive drones of Iranian design.
- According to the Ministry of Energy, energy sites were affected in six regions of Ukrainewith a particular situation ” difficult “ in those of Zaporizhia (south), Kharkiv (north-east), and Khmelnytsky (west).
- The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has announced that a reactor at the Khmelnytsky Atomic Power Plant (NPP), has been shut down due to instabilities on the electrical network.
- “Ukraine has temporarily lost 44% of its nuclear power generation capacity, 75% of its thermal power plant capacity and 33% of its cogeneration power plant capacity”, detailed the Ukrainian Prime Minister, Denys Chmyhal, while ensuring that “the vast majority of Ukrainians still have access to heating, water and electricity”.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reiterated on Friday evening that “several missiles crossed the airspace of Moldova and Romania”, evoking a “Challenge to NATO” from Russia.
- However, the Romanian Ministry of Defense assured “that no missile” violated Romanian airspace. According to Bucharest, however, a missile passed 35 kilometers from Romanian territory, which justified the dispatch of two fighter planes.
- Moldova, a former Soviet republic located between Romania and Ukraine, for its part summoned the Russian ambassador to denounce a “unacceptable violation” of its airspace.
- This new salvo of Russian missiles against Ukraine comes after a European tour by Mr. Zelensky who, in London, Paris and Brussels, urged his allies to supply long-range missiles and fighter planes, which neither the Europeans nor the Americans have accepted at this stage, for fear of an escalation with Moscow.
- A few days before the first anniversary of the Russian invasion, on February 24, the White House has also made it known that President Joe Biden was planning to visit neighboring Poland from February 20-22.
- On the eastern front, a pro-Russian official, Denis Pushilin, claimed progress north of Bakhmout on Friday, epicenter of the fighting, where troops from Moscow are said to have cut off a Ukrainian supply route, and at Vouhledar, also the target of an offensive.
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