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WORLD NEWS Tuesday 27 augusT 2024
Russia’s deadly overnight barrage of missiles and drones hits over

half of Ukraine, officials say

By ILLIA NOVIKOV capital, five in Lutsk, three
Associated Press in the southern Mykolaiv re-
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia gion and four in the neigh-
battered much of Ukraine boring Odesa region.
on Monday, firing scores Blackouts and damage to
of missiles and drones that civilian infrastructure and
killed four people, injured residential buildings were
more than a dozen and reported from the region
damaged energy facilities of Sumy in the east, to the
in attacks that President Mykolaiv and Odesa re-
Volodymyr Zelensky de- gions in the south, to the
scribed as “vile.” region of Rivne in the west.
The barrage of over 100 mis- In Sumy, a province in the
siles and a similar number east that borders Russia, lo-
of drones began around cal administration said that
midnight and continued 194 settlements lost power,
through daybreak in what while 19 others had a par-
appeared to be Russia’s tial blackout.
biggest onslaught in weeks. The private energy compa-
Ukraine’s air force said ny DTEK introduced emer-
swarms of Russian drones On this photo taken from video released by the Russian Defense Ministry on Monday, Aug. 26, gency blackouts, saying in
fired at eastern, northern, 2024, A Russian assault unit prepare to leave an armoured personal carrier in the direction of a statement that “energy
southern, and central re- Konstantinovka in Ukraine. workers throughout the
gions were followed by vol- Associated Press country work 24/7 to re-
leys of cruise and ballistic Prime Minister Denys Shmy- weapons and permission to critical energy infrastruc- store light in the homes of
missiles. hal said Russia fired drones, use them on targets inside ture facilities that support Ukrainians.”
“Like most previous Russian cruise missiles and hyper- Russia. the operation of Ukraine’s In the wake of the barrage
strikes, this one was just as sonic ballistic Kinzhal mis- “In order to stop the bar- military-industrial complex. and the power cuts, offi-
vile, targeting critical civil- siles at 15 Ukrainian regions baric shelling of Ukrainian All designated targets were cials across Ukraine were

ian infrastructure,” Zelen- more than half the country. cities, it is necessary to de- hit.” At least four people ordered to open “points of
skyy said, adding that most “The energy infrastructure stroy the place from which were killed one in the west- invincibility” shelter-type
of the country was target- has once again become the Russian missiles are ern city of Lutsk, one in the places where people can
ed from the Kharkiv region the target of Russian terror- launched,” Shmyhal said. central Dnipropetrovsk re- charge their phones and
and Kyiv to Odesa and the ists,” Shmyhal said, adding “We count on the support gion, one in Zhytomyr in other devices and get re-
west. that the state-owned pow- of our allies and will defi- the country’s center, and freshments during black-
Explosions were heard in er grid operator, Ukrenergo, nitely make Russia pay.” one in the partially occu- outs, Shmyhal said. Such
the capital of Kyiv. Power has been forced to imple- The Russian Defense Min- pied Zaporizhzhia region in points were first opened in
and water supplies in the ment emergency power istry said the attacks used the southeast, local officials the fall of 2022, when Russia
city were disrupted by the cuts to stabilize the system. “long-range precision air- said. Thirteen others were targeted Ukraine’s energy
attack, Mayor Vitali Klitsch- He urged Ukraine’s allies to and sea-based weapons wounded one in the Kyiv infrastructure with weekly
ko said. provide it with long-range and strike drones against region that surrounds the barrages.q

Police in Iceland call off search at ice cave collapse that killed 1

man, saying no one is missing

By DAVID KEYTON and accounted for after exam- thorities received reports they were satisfied that no leading information” about
DANICA KIRKA ining the tour operator’s re- that an ice cave had col- one else was missing. Police the number of people on
Associated Press cords and finding that only lapsed at the Breidam- said there had been “mis- the trip.q
LONDON (AP) — Icelandic 23 people were on the ice erkurjokull glacier in south-
police on Monday called cave tour, not 25 as was eastern Iceland. One man
off the search for anyone first believed. Even so, res- died at the scene and a
trapped in the previous cuers continued the search woman was transported to
day’s collapse of an ice until all of the collapsed ice a hospital in Reykjavik, the
cave that killed one per- had been moved to be capital, by helicopter. Both
son and injured another, sure that no one had been victims are American citi-
saying that all members of left behind. zens, police said.
the tourist expedition had “The police field manager The search, which was sus-
been accounted for. located at the scene an- pended overnight when
Authorities had initially nounced that all the ice conditions made it too
mounted a large-scale that was thought to have dangerous, had resumed
rescue operation, with as fallen on the people had at about 7 a.m., Icelandic
many as 200 rescuers sift- been moved,” police said. broadcaster RUV reported.
ing through the icy rubble “It has come to light that Video showed rescuers
by hand to find two people no one (was) hidden under working inside two large
believed to have been the ice.’’ craters surrounded by the Rescue teams at the scene after an ice cave partially collapsed,
missing. The rescue operation be- sand-blackened ice of the at the Breidamerkurjokull glacier, in southeastern Iceland,
But police eventually deter- gan around 3 p.m. local Breidamerkurjokull glacier. Monday, Aug, 26, 2024. Associated Press
mined that no one was un- time on Sunday when au- But by the end of the day,