{"id":34965,"date":"2026-08-30T09:44:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T09:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/34965\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T09:44:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T09:44:31","slug":"russia-preparing-massive-strikes-against-ukraines-energy-facilities-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/34965\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia preparing \u2018massive strikes against Ukraine\u2019s energy facilities\u2019 \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Defense also said Moscow had \u201c(carried) out coordinated strikes\u201d against an industrial facility in Kyiv. A Russian attack launched on Friday against a warehouse in Myla near the Ukrainian capital reportedly killed 38 people, Ukraine\u2019s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ZelenskyyUa\/status\/2093966472750026909\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">said on X<\/a> Sunday, with 20 injured and four people missing since the attack. The warehouse attack resulted in fires that damaged at least 50 residential homes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn total, this week alone, the Russians have launched nearly 2,000 strike drones, more than 1,600 aerial bombs, and 31 missiles of various types,\u201d Zelenskyy added.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Ukrainian officials have also said that their intelligence suggests Russia is planning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/russia-plans-new-ground-attack-on-kyiv-ukraine-warns\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a new ground attack<\/a> on Kyiv. Pavlo Palisa, deputy head of Ukraine\u2019s presidential office, told reporters that Russian military chiefs have been tasked by the Kremlin\u2019s political leaders with planning and preparing for attacks on both the Ukrainian capital and the city of Chernihiv.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, Polish Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/donaldtusk\/status\/2093648423522124282?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Donald Tusk said<\/a> NATO\u2019s Secretary-General Mark Rutte had \u201chis assessment of the situation in the region and on the Ukrainian-Russian front\u201d and that \u201cthe escalation from Russia\u2019s side is progressing.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cUkraine needs greater air support,\u201d Tusk urged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ministry of Defense also said Moscow had \u201c(carried) out coordinated strikes\u201d against an industrial facility in Kyiv.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[370,839,237,1903,2622,777,2524,64,869,213,291,3035,25,26,152,72],"class_list":["post-34965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-defense","tag-donald-tusk","tag-drones","tag-energy","tag-energy-infrastructure","tag-infrastructure","tag-intelligence","tag-kremlin","tag-mark-rutte","tag-military","tag-missiles","tag-resilience","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","tag-war-in-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}