Less than a week ago, Russia held a so-called “presidential election” that once again confirmed that Putin’s rule poses a real threat to millions of people both inside and outside Russia.
On 22 March, Russia launched one of the largest attacks on Ukraine, using 151 aerial attack weapons: 63 strike UAVs of the Shahed-136/131 type, 12 Iskander-M ballistic missiles, 40 Kh-101/Kh-555 cruise missiles, 5 Kh-22 cruise missiles, 7 Kh-47M2 Kinzhal aeroballistic missiles, 2 Kh-59 guided aircraft missiles, 22 S-300/S-400 anti-aircraft guided missiles.
The main target was Ukraine’s energy infrastructure. Dozens of energy system facilities were damaged. The terrorist state launched a missile strike on the Dnipro hydroelectric power station. Two direct hits hit HPP-1 and HPP-2. As a result of the strike a large-scale leakage of oil products into the Dnieper River occurred. The dam remained intact, although it was damaged. 80 years ago, the Dnieper hydroelectric power station was blown up by the Nazis Wehrmacht.
Seven regions of the country experienced emergency power cuts and implemented stabilisation shutdown schedules, which Ukraine has not seen since the end of last winter. In Kharkiv, the metro, railway station and a large part of the city were de-energised. In Dnipropetrovsk Region, hundreds of miners were blocked due to power cuts and could not get to the surface.
Russia also continued to carry out systematic air strikes on frontline and border territories, wiping out Ukrainian residential areas. Ukraine’s densely populated cities – Zaporizhzhya, Kharkiv, Odesa and Kyiv – were subjected to massive attacks with long range missiles. The victims of these attacks were civilians.
The creation of a deeply echeloned air defence system around each major Ukrainian city could save the lives of Ukrainian civilians and preserve critical infrastructure. Western air defence systems such as Patriot, SAMP(T), IRIS-T have already proven their effectiveness in destroying various types of Russian missiles.
Every day the Moscow terrorist regime kills Ukrainian men and women. This conveyor belt of death, arranged and directed by the Kremlin, will continue until Russia is stopped. The events at Crocus City Hall in the Moscow suburbs on Black Friday of the new term of Putin’s regime may be the starting point of its downfall.
