{"id":1701102,"date":"2022-10-18T11:56:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T15:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1701102"},"modified":"2022-10-18T12:03:27","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T16:03:27","slug":"ukraine-plagued-by-power-outages-after-russian-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ukraine-plagued-by-power-outages-after-russian-strikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine Plagued by Power Outages After Russian Strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fukraine-plagued-by-power-outages-after-russian-strikes%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1701102&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Air raid sirens continued to wail across <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-ukraine\">Ukraine<\/a> and in the capital Kyiv on Oct. 18 as loud blasts were also reported in several cities, along with major power disruptions in the Mykolaiv region.<\/p>\n<p>Officials in Kyiv said at least two energy facilities in the central city of Dnipro had been badly damaged, presumably by Russian artillery fire.<\/p>\n<p>The reports come one day after Russian forces carried out a massive wave of rocket and drone attacks across Ukraine, which left at least four people dead in the capital.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Kyiv, rocket and\/or drone attacks were reported in the Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv, and Zhytomyr regions.<\/p>\n<p>While Moscow says it\u2019s using high-precision weapons to minimize civilian casualties, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the latest round of strikes highlights the \u201cbrutality\u201d of Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters on Oct. 17, Jean-Pierre said the White House \u201cstrongly condemns\u201d the Russian strikes, and that the United States would continue to back Ukraine \u201cfor as long as it takes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will continue to impose costs on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-russia\">Russia<\/a>,\u201d she said, and \u201chold them accountable for its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-war\">war<\/a> crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the U.S. unveiled a fresh $725 million military-aid package to Ukraine, which, according to Defense Department officials, will include precision-guided artillery rounds and high-speed anti-radiation missiles.<\/p>\n<p>The new aid package brings total U.S. military assistance to Kyiv to more than $17.5 billion since Feb. 24, when Russia initiated its \u201cspecial military operation\u201d in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The latest round of Russian strikes comes a week after a similar barrage of drone and missile attacks across Ukraine targeting what Moscow describes as \u201ccritical infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The first wave of strikes on Oct. 10 followed an explosion two days earlier that damaged a strategic bridge linking the Russian mainland to the Crimean Peninsula\u2013an attack that Moscow has blamed on Ukrainian operatives.<\/p>\n<p>On Oct. 18, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said an estimated 30 percent of Ukraine\u2019s power stations had been destroyed since Oct. 10, leading to rolling blackouts throughout the country.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Twitter, Zelenskyy described Russia\u2019s ongoing strikes on energy infrastructure as \u201cterrorism,\u201d adding there was \u201cno space left for negotiations\u201d with Moscow.<\/p>\n<p> Blaming Iran <\/p>\n<p>On the evening of Oct. 17, the Ukrainian military claimed to have successfully downed 37 Russian drones over the previous 24 hours. Ukrainian officials also assert that the latest attacks employed drones of Iranian manufacture\u2013an assessment seemingly shared by the U.S. State Department.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for the U.S. State Department warned that if Iran were found to be supplying Russia with combat drones, that would constitute a breach of UN Security Council Resolution 2231.<\/p>\n<p>Adopted in 2015, that resolution provided the framework for a 2015 deal between Iran and six major powers\u2013including the U.S.\u2013that sought to curb Iran\u2019s uranium-enrichment activities. Although the U.S. withdrew from the deal in 2018, western diplomats say the resolution includes restrictions on the export of certain military technologies by Iran, including drones intended for combat.<\/p>\n<p>Tehran, for its part, denies it is supplying Russia with combat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air raid sirens continued to wail across Ukraine and in the capital Kyiv on Oct. 18 as loud blasts were also reported in several cities, along with major power disruptions in the Mykolaiv region. 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