On Thursday night, November 28, the Russian Armed Forces launched a comprehensive strike on Ukraine by launching almost a hundred missiles and drones, President Vladimir Putin said at the CSTO summit in Astana, Kazakhstan.
"Tonight we launched a comprehensive strike using 90 missiles of similar classes and 100 drones. Seventeen targets were hit," Putin said.
Putin specified that the Russian army hit military facilities, defense industry facilities and their support systems. The strikes came in response to Ukraine's ongoing attacks on Russian territory with long-range weapons supplied by Western countries, the head of state added.
As a result of the attack conducted by the Russian Aerospace Forces on November 28, emergency power outages were introduced throughout Ukraine. Shortly before the strike, air raid alerts was declared in all regions of Ukraine.
Explosions thundered in Kyiv, Odessa, Kharkiv, Sumy, Vinnytsia, Mykolaiv, Lviv, Rivne, Ivano-Frankivsk, Khmelnytsky, Poltava and Cherkasy regions.