Russia is exploiting air defense shortages in Ukraine's Kharkiv region by targeting civilian infrastructure and communities to drive away residents
Russia is exploiting air defense shortages in Ukraine's Kharkiv region by targeting civilian infrastructure and communities to drive away residentsA saleswoman places goods in a refrigerator in a store that runs on a generator after the municipality temporarily cut the power to conserve energy in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Sunday, April 14, 2024.
As utilities clamber to meet electricity demand before the onset of winter in six months, Russia continues to unleash deadly aerial-glide bombs to drive more residents away. Some officials and analysts warn it could be a concerted effort by Moscow to shape conditions for a summer offensive to seize the city.
Missiles fired from Belgorod take 30 seconds to reach their targets in Kharkiv, just 30 kilometers away, which is about the same amount of time that air defense systems need to respond. In the last barrage, Russia launched 22 missiles simultaneously to swarm and disorient those defenses, Syniehubov said.At CHP-5, a plant in Kharkiv that generates electricity and heat, the acrid stench of smoke still hangs in the air.
Serhii Novikov, a volunteer with the NGO “I Am Saved,″ which organizes evacuations, said the uptick in Russia’s use of aerial-glide bombs is making more communities near the Belgorod border uninhabitable.
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