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Editor's note: The article was updated with additional information and photos from authorities. A Russian missile attack on the city of Smila in Cherkasy Oblast on April 25 hit a critical infrastructure facility and injured six people, authorities reported. Explosions were reported in Cherkasy Oblast at 6:30 a.m. local time. The explosions followed a warning from the Air Force of the threat of a Russian missile strike in the area. Serhii Ananko, the mayor of Smila, wrote on Telegram that Russia had attacked a critical infrastructure facility in the city. Ihor Taburets, the governor of Cherkasy...
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Russian forces may shift their focus in the coming weeks to targeting Ukraine's transportation infrastructure, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) wrote in its April 23 report. Moscow intensified missile and drone attacks against Ukraine's energy grid in spring 2024, exploiting delays in Western aid that led to critical ammunition and air defense shortages. The assault failed to collapse Ukraine's power grid, but destroyed critical facilities in multiple cities. The long-awaited passage of a security assistance package worth $61 billion in the U.S. Congress means that Ukraine's defense ca...
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All six reactors at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) have reached a state of cold shutdown for the first time since October 2022, the International Atomic Energy Agency said in a news release on April 13. IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi welcomed the cold shutdown that began early on Friday morning, statingthat the cold shutdown "enhances the overall safety of the facility." A cold shutdown creates an extra safety buffer allowing more time before nuclear fuel cooling might become compromised in the event of a nuclear accident. While in cold shutdown a reactor would need l...
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Lithuania's Energy Ministry has proposed dismantling its country's shuttered power stations to provide Ukraine with the spare parts needed to repair damaged energy infrastructure, amid an increase in Russian attacks on Ukraine's critical infrastructure, Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko said on April 7. "I had a conversation with the Minister of Energy of Lithuania. They proposed to use their thermal power stations, which are closed. To use them as donors, that is, the possibility to dismantle and obtain the spare parts we need," Halushchenko said on national television. Lithuania's offer co...
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During a meeting with Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal in Tallinn on April 3, Estonian President Alar Karis reaffirmed support for Ukraine's attacks on military targets in Russia, stating that it was "perfectly legitimate for the Ukrainian forces to destroy infrastructure critical to the Russian army." "I consider it entirely legitimate for Ukraine to attack military and other targets within Russia that support the war in order to slow the progress of the Russian war machine," Karis said, accordingto a press release issued by the President's Office. "Ukraine is at war. Russia is not limi...
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