December 11, 2024
A Ukrainian missile struck a boiler plant in Russia’s Rostov Oblast overnight on Dec. 11, damaging critical infrastructure in the city of Taganrog, local Russian officials claimed.
Yuri Slyusary, the acting governor of Rostov Oblast, claimed that an overnight Ukrainian missile attack struck an “industrial facility” in Taganrog, damaging the facility as well as 14 cars in the parking lot.
Taganrog Mayor Svetlana Kambulova later reported that heating supply had been disrupted in 27 apartment buildings in the city following an attack on a boiler plant within the city.
Videos posted on social media capture a series of loud explosions in Taganrog around 3:30 a.m. local time.
The Kyiv Independent cannot independently verify any of the Russian claims, and Ukraine’s military has not yet commented on the alleged attack.
The full extent of the damage was not immediately clear, although Slyusary claimed that there were no casualties as a result of the alleged attack. No additional details were provided by Russian officials.
The alleged attack on Russian critical infrastructure comes as Russia continues to increase its onslaught of attacks against Ukrainian energy facilities, as it seeks to plunge the country into another harsh winter aimed at testing Ukrainians’ resolve.
In the most recent mass aerial attack on the country on Nov. 28, Ukrainian Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko said that Russia struck a “massive blow” to the nation’s power grid.
Situated on the Russia-Ukraine border, Rostov Oblast has become a regular target of Ukrainian attack since the start of the full-scale invasion.
“The alleged attack on Russian critical infrastructure comes as Russia continues to increase its onslaught of attacks against Ukrainian energy facilities, as it seeks to plunge the country into another harsh winter aimed at testing Ukrainians’ resolve.”
The cockroaches are not good at history (as well as geography and economics). If they were, they would study the images of German cities towards the end of WWII. Bombing civilians didn’t make the regime or the people quit. It was a total military defeat that forced this on Germany. This is something mafia land cannot achieve anymore.
Ukraine should be given everything possible to let it destroy mafia land’s military infrastructure, meaning not only ammo dumps, but also transportation hubs, bridges, and even refineries and oil depots, which are just another arm of its military industrial complex.
Mafia land must collapse into a heap of rubble.