Thursday, March 9, turned out to be another nightmarish day for war-ridden Ukraine as Russia launched missile strikes across the country, killing at least six civilians, as per the NDTV reports.
According to emergency services, at least five citizens were killed when a missile struck a village house in the western Lviv area. About 700 kilometers (440 miles) from any war ground, drone images from the region revealed a destroyed home surrounded by severely damaged properties.
In the central Dnipro area, the missiles reportedly killed another person. At Kherson, three people were allegedly killed by shelling on different occasions.
What was the effect of the strike?
This was the worst attack in three weeks since the war started, which endangered Europe’s largest nuclear reactor by cutting it off from the electricity system for many hours before it could be restored. Nuclear power plants require continuous electricity to run cooling systems and avert meltdowns. Thus this sudden power cut in the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station has revived the possibility of a catastrophic disaster again.
The missiles covered a large area of the nation, including western Ukraine, far from the front lines; air raid sirens blared throughout the night, trying to alert the citizens of the oncoming bloodbath.
The attack that occurred while many people were sleeping, according to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, was an effort by Moscow “to intimidate Ukrainians anew.”
Explosions in the Ukrainian city of Kyiv woke up the locals. These attacks initiated the most extended air attack alert that lasted seven hours at night.
What is the Ukrainian view on the attack?
While Russia asserts that its strategy of attacking Ukraine’s infrastructure from a distance from the front is meant to weaken its combat capacity, according to Kyiv, the air attacks have no military purpose and are intended to damage and frighten people, which is nothing short of a war crime.
Moscow reportedly launched six of its kinzhal hypersonic missiles, a record-breaking number that Ukraine cannot intercept. Russia is thought to have just a few dozen of the missiles, which President Vladimir Putin frequently trumpets in talks as a weapon that NATO cannot match.
The plant, which Russia has controlled since seizing it early in the conflict, is close to the front line, and both sides have previously issued warnings about the possibility of a catastrophe brought on by fighting. Russia claimed that diesel backup power was keeping the plant safe.
According to Valerii Zaluzhnyi, the head of Ukraine’s armed forces, Russia launched 81 missiles in all on Thursday, eight of which exploded. He claimed that 34 rockets and four drones were intercepted. Military analysts argue that the variety of ammunition makes it more difficult for air defense to withstand the assault.
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