Putin Launches Massive Missile Attack on Ukraine on WWII Remembrance Day

“On the day of commemoration of the victims of the Second World War and victory over Nazism, Nazi Putin launched a massive missile attack on Ukraine,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy wrote on the “X” social network. “The whole world must understand who it is. The world must not give a chance to a new Nazism.”

Energy resources, about 30 residential buildings, public transport, cars, as well as the building of the fire ​​and rescue unit in Zaporizhzhia were damaged when the Russian forces fired. Three people are known to have been injured – two were wounded in the Kyiv region, and a child was wounded by gunfire in the Kirovohrad region.

All the cruise missiles launched by Russia over the capital Kyiv were shot down, said Serhiy Popko, head of the Kyiv region military administration. He made sure that there was no damage and no casualties in the village.

Anti-aircraft defense systems were also operational in Lviv. Explosions were also heard in Zaporizhzhia.

Ukrainian Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko announced that Russian missiles and drones targeted energy facilities in Poltava, Kryvyi Rih, Zaporizhzhia, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk and Vinnytsia regions. The minister did not say whether the Russian attacks had caused any damage.

On the morning of May 8, Russia also attacked civilian railway infrastructure in Kherson. As a result of the impact, the tracks and the railway station were damaged. Train movement between Kyiv and Kherson is temporarily restricted to Mykolaiv, but passengers will be transported to Kherson by buses.

Russian troops attacked Ukraine from the air with 76 different weapons – 55 missiles and 21 combat drones “Shahed”, announced the Commander of the Air Force of Ukraine Mykola Oleschuk.

According to him, the Russian forces used one Kinzhal missile, two ballistic missiles fired from the Iskander-M base, four Kalibr left-handed missiles, one cruise missile fired from the Iskander-K base, two Kh-59 guided missiles /X- 69 and 45 Kh-101/X-555 cruise missiles.

Air defense forces of Ukraine managed to destroy 59 missiles and drones.

CONTEXT:

Russia’s unprovoked and unprovoked attack on Ukraine began 2022. 24 of the year In FebruaryThe Kremlin’s propaganda aggressively promised to capture Kyiv in three days, but the incompetent and strong resistance of the Ukrainians prevented the Kremlin from carrying out its plans.

After a failure, the Kremlin withdrew the army from the Kyiv region, but in the fall of 2022, thanks to a successful resistance, Ukraine managed to expel the occupation forces from Kharkiv region and Cities of Kherson. In the summer of 2023, Ukraine launched a new counterattack, but that it wasn’t successful

in contrast in 2024 due to the lack of weapons, Ukraine mainly has to defend itself against Russian attacks, although the leadership of Ukraine emphasizes that it has not given up the goal of expelling the occupying forces from the territory. All of Ukraine.

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