Russia Bombards Ukraine With New Missile Strikes, Damages Power Grid. In Pics

A day after Germany and the United States pledged modern tanks for Kyiv, Russian forces fired dozens of missiles at Ukraine in a ferocious wave of strikes on Thursday, reported news agency AFP. The attacks were directed at energy infrastructure. The state's emergency services reported that 35 buildings were damaged in several areas, resulting in 11 fatalities and 11 injuries. ( Image Source: Getty )

The Kremlin stated that Moscow saw the tank deliveries as direct involvement in the conflict, and Ukraine acknowledged that Russian troops on the eastern front line were exerting more and more pressure on it. According to German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, the promised Leopard tanks will arrive late March, early April. ( Image Source: Getty )

He added that the Ukrainian soldiers who will be trained on the Leopard and the German Marder infantry fighting vehicles will begin their training a little later. Vitali Klitschko, the mayor of Kyiv, stated on social media that Russian missiles in the capital had killed one person and injured two others. According to Kyiv city officials, the 55-year-old man was killed by missile fragments that were destroyed by Ukrainian air defense systems. ( Image Source: Getty )

DTEK, an energy provider in Ukraine, stated that it would implement emergency power outages in and around Kyiv, as well as in the southern Odessa and Dnipropetrovsk regions. Since October, Russia has been carrying out regular waves of aerial attacks against Ukraine's energy infrastructure. ( Image Source: Getty )

As winter intensifies, those assaults have crippled the electricity grid, resulting in temperatures close to minus 32 degrees Fahrenheit. According to the chief of the regional military administration, two critical infrastructure facilities in the Odessa region on the Black Sea were damaged on Thursday.We expect more than 30 missiles, which have already started to appear in various territories. Air defence systems are working, Ignat said. ( Image Source: Getty )

The head of Kyiv's military administration, Sergiy Popko, stated that thanks to the excellent work of air defense, all 15 cruise missiles launched toward the capital were destroyed. ( Image Source: Getty )