Руска атака с дронове остави Тернопол без електричество ᐉ Новини от Fakti.bg – Свят – haroonabadvital.com

A Russian drone attack in the middle of the night left the western Ukrainian city of Ternopil without power, the regional military administration said, a week after Moscow strikes knocked out power to much of the city and region.

“Emergency teams and rescue workers are liquidating the effects of the attack. Stock up on water and charge your phones,” Sergei Nadal, head of the regional defense headquarters in Ternopil, wrote on the Telegram app. The full scope of the attack on Ternopil, a large city in western Ukraine, remains unclear. The weather warning in the Ternopil region, whose regional center is the city of the same name, lasted about two and a half hours and began at 11:30 pm. By Greenwich last night.

One person was killed and several others were injured in a Russian drone attack on Ternopil earlier yesterday. A week ago, a large part of the city remained without electricity after the largest Russian drone attack against Ukraine.

Ternopil is located about 220 kilometers east of NATO Poland, and the region had a population of more than 1 million before the Russian invasion in February 2022, which pushed many Ukrainians west. US and Ukraine Defense Ministers Lloyd Austin and Rustam Omerov discussed by phone Russia’s use of new missiles and aid to Kiev in the new year.

“Secretary Austin condemned Russia’s recent missile and drone strikes against civilian infrastructure in Ukraine and the use of a medium-range ballistic missile against Ukraine, another escalation in Russia’s war against Kiev,” Pentagon Press Secretary General May said. Bat Ryder.

In late November, Moscow launched a medium-range hypersonic ballistic missile at the Ukrainian city of Dnipro in response to the United States and the United Kingdom allowing Ukraine to bomb Russian territory with modern Western weapons.

The conversation with Austin also focused on “strategic planning for 2025, in particular the supply of weapons and equipment to Ukrainian units,” Omerov said. With the inauguration of Donald Trump as president of the country on January 20, Kiev fears that the support provided to it by Washington – the largest donor to Ukraine in its battle with Russia – will decrease significantly.

Umarov added that he and his colleague also discussed the upcoming meeting in the “Ramstein” format, a union between EU and NATO members to help Kiev. It was not specified when it would be organized. According to Ukrainian media such as the online publication European Justice, the meeting may take place this month. The latter will likely be like this before Trump’s inauguration.

The Austin-Omerov conversation also took place against the backdrop of the news announced by US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken that the United States is granting new military aid to Ukraine in the amount of $725 million.