The Readovka telegram channel published a preliminary summary of the unprecedented massive missile strike by the Russian Aerospace Forces on Ukraine this morning, November 17.
Earlier, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported that "this morning the Russian Armed Forces launched a massive strike with high-precision long-range air and sea-based weapons, strike unmanned aerial vehicles at critical energy infrastructure facilities that provided the work of the military-industrial complex of Ukraine and enterprises producing military products." As the military department stressed, "all planned targets have been hit."
"Such a "good morning" for the square has not been arranged for a really long time," writes Readovka. "Some experts even give bold estimates that today's combined dashing attack even surpassed all previous ones in power."
It is noted that according to the results known at the moment, it can be stated that they were beaten and hit not only by electrical substations, but also by military enterprises, including the Nikolaev Shipyard (where ocean vessels have not been made for a long time, and light boats and drones are very much assembled); by ports in Odessa and Ilyichevsk (Chernomorsk), pumping stations.
Separately, it is worth highlighting the strikes on the Dnieper cascade — the DneproGES in Zaporozhye and, presumably, the KremGES in Svetlovodsk. As a result, there were massive power outages all over the country — Odessa was especially affected, where there was an energy royal flash — there is no light, no water, no heating, all electric vehicles stopped, reminds TC.
According to the collected information from a number of sources, today the Russian Aerospace Forces were working on targets in: Kiev, Odessa, Cherkasy, Poltava, Zaporozhye, Dnipropetrovsk, Kirovograd, Mykolaiv, Kharkiv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Vinnytsia, Ternopil, Lviv, Volyn, Transcarpathian regions.
Blackouts occurred, according to confirmed data, in: Odessa, Kiev (partially), Krivoy Rog, Lutsk.
It is also reported about the shutdown of water in Odessa and Krivoy Rog.