UKRAINE, KHARKIV, Dec. 25 — On Dec. 24, Russian forces attacked the objects of the critical infrastructure in the Slobidskyi and Shevchenkivskyi district of Kharkiv, said Ihor Terekhov, the city’s mayor.

“Their goal is to destroy the energy island (a project designed to decentralize the energy system of the city and region — ed.) that we have been building over the past few years and try to plunge our city, all of us, into cold and darkness,” said Terekhov.

Over the past day, Russians attacked Kharkiv and 13 settlements in the region with three glide bombs, 21 drones of different types, and with an unidentified number of rockets from multiple launchers, reported Oleh Syniehubov, the governor of the Kharkiv oblast.

Syniehubov said that Russian attacks on Kharkiv killed a 51-year-old man and injured 14 men and one woman. Russians also injured a 64-year-old man in Mytrofanivka village and a 56-year-old man in Podoly village in the Kupiansk district.

The Russian attack destroyed or damaged an apartment building, three houses, two garages, and two cars in Kharkiv.

They also damaged three houses in the Bohodukhiv district, a car in the Kupiansk district, a car and a building of a car service in the Kharkiv district, and a house, a car, and a storage building in the Lozova district.

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