LIVE War in Ukraine – day 805: New massive Russian attack on the Ukrainian energy system / All missiles fired at Kiev would have been shot down / Cape Verde, the first African country to participate in the peace summit in Switzerland

Russia launched a major new airstrike against energy infrastructure in several parts of Ukraine early Wednesday, Ukrainian military and energy officials said Wednesday. “Another massive attack on our energy industry!” Ukrainian Energy Minister Gherman Galushchenko wrote on Telegram, adding that generation and transmission facilities in the Poltava, Kirovohrad, Zaporozhye, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk and Vinnytsia regions were targeted. he added.With the exception of the Zaporozhye region, all other regions are far from the front line, Reuters notes.

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08:33 The latest Russian airstrike caused serious damage to equipment at three thermal power plants, DTEK, Ukraine’s largest private electricity company, announced on Wednesday.

“The equipment is badly damaged. Energy engineers are currently working to resolve the consequences of the attack,” DTEK said on Telegram.

08:25 Zelenskiy said on Tuesday that the island nation of Cape Verde had become the first African country to agree to attend a “world peace summit” aimed at finding a solution to the more than two-year war between Ukraine and Russia.

The summit, to which Russia was not invited, will be held in Switzerland on June 15-16, and Ukraine hopes to garner broad support to persuade Moscow to agree to terms that Kiev considers acceptable. Ukraine has made great efforts to win over countries from the Global South, although Russia benefits from long-standing Soviet-era ties with them.

In a Telegram post, Zelenski said he thanked Cape Verde Prime Minister Ulisses Correia e Silva during a phone conversation. “I thanked him for his support of the peace formula and his personal principled position on the Russian invasion. Cape Verde is the first African country to confirm its participation in the peace summit,” Zelenski said. (Reuters)

08:14 Details of the Russian airstrike: Ukrainian national grid operator Ukrenergo announced on Telegram that equipment at one of its facilities in central Ukraine had been damaged, without providing further details.

In the central Poltava region, an energy infrastructure facility was hit by drones, starting a fire, regional governor Filip Pronin said. According to preliminary information, there were no casualties.

The governors of Vinnytsia and Zaporozhye regions said separately that essential civil infrastructure facilities were damaged, without providing further details.

All missiles aimed at Kiev were destroyed, Serhiy Popko, head of the city’s military administration, said, adding that there was no major damage or injuries in the attack. (Reuters)

Brief recap of recent events:

• Ukraine’s Kraken special forces unit released video footage from the besieged city of Ceasiv Yar in the eastern Donetsk region on Tuesday, showing footage of ongoing fighting amid a devastated landscape, but claiming there are currently no Russian soldiers in the city .
• Klaus Iohannis said on Tuesday that he is open to discussions for Romania to offer a Patriot air defense system to Ukraine, after a meeting with his American counterpart Joe Biden at the White House.
• Putin’s palace in Gelendzhik has finally been completed, and representatives of the Anticorruption Foundation managed to get inside to see it with the help of a hidden camera.
• Armenia may ban Russian television broadcasts if Moscow continues to ignore Yerevan’s demands for more balanced reporting, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Tuesday.
• Estonia’s parliament voted on a resolution on Monday declaring the Russian Orthodox Church an “institution sponsoring the military aggression of the Russian Federation”.
• “Georgia is under the control of an oligarch, except for a part of the media and civil society” – A teacher from Tbilisi explains the huge stakes of the protests in this country.
• Vladimir Putin began a new term as Russia’s leader on Tuesday, after a quarter of a century in which he has amassed more power than ever before.
• “Vladimir Putin’s inauguration gift”: SBU announces the arrest of two Ukrainian colonels who planned to assassinate Volodymyr Zelensky.
• Belarus has begun testing its military’s readiness to deploy tactical nuclear weapons at the same time as an exercise by Russia.
• Ukrainian prosecutors examined debris from 21 of the roughly 50 North Korean ballistic missiles launched by Russia, trying to assess the threat posed by Moscow’s cooperation with Pyongyang.
• A Russian court has sentenced the exiled wife of journalist Kirill Martinov to nine years in prison for attempted murder, accused of trying to kill her daughter nearly two decades ago.
• Armenia may ban Russian television broadcasts if Moscow continues to ignore Yerevan’s demands for more balanced reporting, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Tuesday.
• ​Vladimir Kara-Murza, sentenced to 25 years in prison in April 2023 for disapproving of the war in Ukraine, will receive the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for his Washington Post op-eds from behind bars.

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