Russia hits Ukraine’s gas sites in biggest war attack
Moscow fired a total of 381 drones, 35 missiles
Russia launched its biggest attack of the war overnight against natural gas facilities run by Ukraine’s state-owned Naftogaz Group, officials said on Friday.
Russia fired a total of 381 drones and 35 missiles at Ukraine, according to Ukraine’s air force.
In what officials were an attempt to wreck the Ukrainian power grid ahead of winter and wear down public appetite for the 3-year-old conflict.
“This is deliberate terror against civilian facilities that provide gas extraction and processing for the normal life of people,” Serhii Koretskyi, chief executive of Ukraine’s state-owned gas company Naftogaz, said in a statement.
“It has no military purpose,” he said.
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