Russia targets Ukraine's critical infrastructure, missile factory in fresh missile strikes

Russia attacked gas production facilities and a missile factory in fresh missile strikes on Ukraine's critical infrastructure on Thursday, Ukrainian officials said. Explosions and consequent destruction of Ukraine's critical infrastructure were reported from across Ukraine, including the southern port of Odesa, the capital Kyiv and the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro. Civilians were immediately told to take shelter in response to air raid warnings, news agency AFP reported. 

“Missiles are flying over Kyiv right now. Now, they are bombing our gas production (facilities), they are bombing our enterprises in Dnipro. The targets included the huge Pivdenmash missile factory in Dnipro,” Interfax Ukraine news agency quoted Ukraine’s President Denys Shmyhal as saying. 

The destruction of Ukraine's critical infrastructure on Thursday coincided with the extension of the 'Black Sea Grain Initiative' for another 120 days.

The United Nations-brokered initiative calls for a safe sea passage to Ukrainian grain shipments from Black Sea ports amid consistent armed confrontations and exchange of missiles and artillery fire between Russia and Ukraine. The ports in Black Sea had been blocked by the Russian navy when the invasion was started.  

Meanwhile, NATO and Poland concluded that the missile that crashed in a village inside Poland was a stray fired by Ukraine's air defences to intercept a Russian barrage. 

Russia has been successfully targeting Ukraine's critical energy infrastructure, with the heaviest waves of missile strikes across Ukraine-held territory since early October. About 40 per cent of the country's energy infrastructure has been destroyed, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said earlier in November. 

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