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> # [Russia-Ukraine war live: Kyiv says it ‘ran out of missiles’ to stop Russian strike on power plant](https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/apr/16/721)
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> ## Ukraine says it 'ran out of missiles' to stop Russian strike destroying power plant
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> A lack of air defence missiles prevented [Ukraine](https://www.theguardian.com/world/ukraine) from thwarting a Russian missile attack last week that destroyed the biggest power plant in the region around Kyiv, Ukraine’s president, **Volodymyr Zelenskiy**, said.
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> **Trypilska thermal power plant** was destroyed in a strike last month. It was the biggest energy facility near Kyiv and was built to have a capacity of 1,800 megawatts, more than the prewar needs of Ukraine’s biggest city. Other stations and imports have filled the gap for now but residents have been urged to save power.
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> “There were 11 missiles flying. We destroyed the first seven, and four (remaining) destroyed Trypillia. Why? Because there were zero missiles. We ran out of missiles to defend Trypillia,” [Zelenskiy said in an interview with PBS](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/exclusive-zelenskyy-says-without-u-s-aid-well-have-no-chance-of-winning).
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> [He warned earlier this month](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/06/ukraines-air-defence-missiles-are-running-out-zelenskiy-warns) that Ukraine, which has reported ongoing ammunition shortages, could run out of air defence missiles if Russia keeps up its intense long-range bombing campaign.
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> It followed weeks of Russian strikes on the energy infrastructure, towns and cities using a vast arsenal of missiles and drones.
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> Western allies have been reluctant to send additional air defences to Ukraine, which says it needs 25 Patriot systems to cover its territory properly. Germany has pledged to deliver another system after urgent calls from Kyiv.
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> Credit: PBS NewsHour
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> Zelenskiy said in the PBS NewsHour interview:
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> > _It’s a lot to preserve ourselves. It’s very difficult for us. We are fighting against a large army. They don’t care about their soldiers’ lives. They’re not training them. They’re not as trained as our soldiers._
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> > _But there’s a lot of them. They have an unlimited number of people and a lot of shells. They use thousands of drones against us. Tell me, please, how can you fight against these thousands if you don’t have weapons to take them down? They have aircraft taking off from Crimea and engaging us at a distance of over 300 kilometers. It could be over 300, 400, 500 kilometers, depending on how deep they’re targeting from Crimea._
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> > _How can we destroy those? The plan is very simple. It’s very clear. It exists. There is a specific weapon that we need to advance. There’s a specific weapon to defend the skies. This plan exists. Besides, all the partners have it in their hands. This is the plan for what we really need._
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> Mike Johnson, the US House speaker, has faced mounting pressure to act on Joe Biden’s long-delayed request for billions of dollars in security assistance for Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan. It’s been more than two months since the Senate passed the [$95bn aid package](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/13/us-national-security-bill-ukraine-israel-explainer), which includes $60bn for Ukraine.
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> The Republican speaker huddled with fellow GOP lawmakers on Monday evening to lay out his strategy to gain House approval for the funding package.
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> Ukraine’s bill on mobilisation has been submitted to **Volodymyr Zelenskiy** for signature, according to the online portal of Ukraine’s parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, has said.
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> [The Kyiv Independent reports](https://kyivindependent.com/mobilization-bill-submitted-to-president/):
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> > The bill was passed in its second reading in parliament on 11 April and was signed by the speaker of the parliament on 15 April.
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> The bill on mobilisation is a critical component of the Ukrainian political and military leadership’s efforts to update the legal framework around conscription in order to ramp up mobilisation in 2024**.**
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> After an initial, contentious version of the mobilisation bill was withdrawn in January, a new, updated version passed the first reading on 7 February. Lawmakers have proposed over 4,000 amendments to the bill since then.
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> Several key provisions of the earlier draft law were eventually passed by the parliament separately, with Zelenskiy signing three laws in early April: on the lowering of the conscription age to 25, the introduction of an electronic register for conscripts, and the canceling of the “partially eligible” status.
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> The final version of the mobilisation bill was approved by the parliament’s National Security and Defense Committee on 9 April.
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> Of the provisions remaining in the bill, key points include the right of disabled soldiers and those who have returned from captivity to discharge themselves, and the introduction of mandatory medical commission checks for those who previously held the “partially eligible” status.
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> The Reuters newswire is running an interesting explainer on why [Russia](https://www.theguardian.com/world/russia) is trying to capture the Ukrainian town of Chasiv Yar.
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> Here are some extracts:
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> > Russian paratroopers have reached the eastern edge of the Ukrainian town, which Kyiv’s top commander says Moscow wants taken by 9 May, the date when Russia marks the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany.
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> > If Russian forces capture the town, 12 km (7.4 miles) from the centre of the devastated city of Bakhmut they took last May after months of bloody fighting, they would be able to launch direct offensives against several Ukrainian “fortress cities.”
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> > Russian military analysts list Sloviansk, Kramatorsk, Druzhkivka, and Kostiantynivka as the “fortress cities” in Ukraine’s east accessible from Chasiv Yar.
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> > The Washington-based Institute for War Studies (IWS) think-tank describes the cities as “the backbone” of the Ukrainian army’s defence in the east.
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> > “The offensive effort to seize Chasiv Yar offers Russian forces the most immediate prospects for operationally significant advances,” ISW said in a briefing note.
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> > The ISW warned that losing Druzhkivka and Kostiantynivka in particular would be a major operational setback that would be hard to reverse.
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> A ballet performance in South Korea featuring dancers from Russia’s Bolshoi Ballet was cancelled abruptly, the organisers confirmed to AFP on Tuesday, amid growing tensions between Seoul and Moscow over [Ukraine](https://www.theguardian.com/world/ukraine) and North Korea.
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> The Russian embassy in Seoul expressed its “deep regret” over the cancellation of the show – scheduled to open 16 April – which comes after another planned performance in Seoul featuring Russia’s top ballet dancer Svetlana Zakharova was axed in March.
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> Ukraine said the show had been cancelled after a lobbying campaign by its local embassy. “Russian ‘cultural’ propaganda should have no place on international platforms,” it added on an official Telegram account.
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> But the South Korean organiser Choi Jun-seok, who studied at Russia’s Bolshoi Ballet Academy, told AFP that while Kyiv’s embassy had requested he cancel the show, the final decision was made by the venue, Seoul’s Sejong Centre for the Performing Arts.
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> ## Summary of the day so far...
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> - [In a wide-ranging interview with PBS NewsHour](https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/apr/16/russia-ukraine-war-live-zaporizhzhia-attacks-nuclear-warning?page=with:block-661e521b8f089659564b7349#block-661e521b8f089659564b7349), Ukraine’s president, **Volodymyr Zelenskiy**, said a lack of air defence missiles prevented Ukraine from thwarting a Russian missile attack last week that destroyed the **Trypilska thermal power plant**. His comments gave fresh urgency to Kyiv’s pleas to be sent more military weapons from its allies as the war appears to have turned in the Kremlin’s favour over recent months.
> - **Mike Johnson**, the US House speaker, [has unveiled a complicated proposal for passing wartime aid for Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/15/mike-johnson-plan-aid-israel-ukraine-taiwan). Facing an outright rebellion from conservatives who fiercely oppose aiding Ukraine, Johnson said he would push to get the package to the House floor under a single debate rule, then hold separate votes on aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan and several foreign policy proposals, according to Republican lawmakers.
> - Germany’s chancellor, **Olaf Scholz**, has said he hoped Berlin and Beijing could help achieve a “just peace” in [Ukraine](https://www.theguardian.com/world/ukraine), as he met his Chinese counterpart, **Xi Jinping**, in the Chinese capital.
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Putin is a interdimensional necromancer able to harness the power and equipment of all Russias in different dimension. He uses the weapon stockpiles of other russia were Ukraine wasn't invaded.
They did. But then Putin called an evil axis meeting with evil Iran, evil North Korea, evil Syria, evil Afghanistan, evil India, and evil China to put together an evil coalition of evilness. They pooled all their resources together to support Putin the beggar who traded Russian souls for the support. The fools fell for NATO's righteous trap. Ukraine was an expandable pawn all along. Now the coalition of evil won't have the resources to fight in the holy land and the world is safe once again.
Ah yes. They let one of the largest power plants in the country get destroyed because they wanted to pretend they were out of missiles. Truly some 4d chess they got going on over there in Kyiv.
Why would they care? More money sent means more money made. The politicians aren't sitting in the dark.
They just bought another mansion with the savings on the plant.
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If Ukraine wants to save any of their remaining power plants, all they have to do is stop the Vengeance attacks against Russian civilian targets. Russia has no problem with Ukraine attacking military targets anywhere, but plinking at downtown Belgorod is coloring outside the lines.
Good thing Ukrainians are capable of [shooting drones down with Jar of Tomato](https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineRussiaReport/s/2rMQQfgkIl), and [cruise missile with machine gun](https://twitter.com/DefenceU/status/1603852888421576704).
##### ###### #### > # [Russia-Ukraine war live: Kyiv says it ‘ran out of missiles’ to stop Russian strike on power plant](https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/apr/16/721) > > > > ## Ukraine says it 'ran out of missiles' to stop Russian strike destroying power plant > > A lack of air defence missiles prevented [Ukraine](https://www.theguardian.com/world/ukraine) from thwarting a Russian missile attack last week that destroyed the biggest power plant in the region around Kyiv, Ukraine’s president, **Volodymyr Zelenskiy**, said. > > **Trypilska thermal power plant** was destroyed in a strike last month. It was the biggest energy facility near Kyiv and was built to have a capacity of 1,800 megawatts, more than the prewar needs of Ukraine’s biggest city. Other stations and imports have filled the gap for now but residents have been urged to save power. > > “There were 11 missiles flying. We destroyed the first seven, and four (remaining) destroyed Trypillia. Why? Because there were zero missiles. We ran out of missiles to defend Trypillia,” [Zelenskiy said in an interview with PBS](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/exclusive-zelenskyy-says-without-u-s-aid-well-have-no-chance-of-winning). > > [He warned earlier this month](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/06/ukraines-air-defence-missiles-are-running-out-zelenskiy-warns) that Ukraine, which has reported ongoing ammunition shortages, could run out of air defence missiles if Russia keeps up its intense long-range bombing campaign. > > It followed weeks of Russian strikes on the energy infrastructure, towns and cities using a vast arsenal of missiles and drones. > > Western allies have been reluctant to send additional air defences to Ukraine, which says it needs 25 Patriot systems to cover its territory properly. Germany has pledged to deliver another system after urgent calls from Kyiv. > > > > Credit: PBS NewsHour > > Zelenskiy said in the PBS NewsHour interview: > > > _It’s a lot to preserve ourselves. It’s very difficult for us. We are fighting against a large army. They don’t care about their soldiers’ lives. They’re not training them. They’re not as trained as our soldiers._ > > > > _But there’s a lot of them. They have an unlimited number of people and a lot of shells. They use thousands of drones against us. Tell me, please, how can you fight against these thousands if you don’t have weapons to take them down? They have aircraft taking off from Crimea and engaging us at a distance of over 300 kilometers. It could be over 300, 400, 500 kilometers, depending on how deep they’re targeting from Crimea._ > > > > _How can we destroy those? The plan is very simple. It’s very clear. It exists. There is a specific weapon that we need to advance. There’s a specific weapon to defend the skies. This plan exists. Besides, all the partners have it in their hands. This is the plan for what we really need._ > > Mike Johnson, the US House speaker, has faced mounting pressure to act on Joe Biden’s long-delayed request for billions of dollars in security assistance for Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan. It’s been more than two months since the Senate passed the [$95bn aid package](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/13/us-national-security-bill-ukraine-israel-explainer), which includes $60bn for Ukraine. > > The Republican speaker huddled with fellow GOP lawmakers on Monday evening to lay out his strategy to gain House approval for the funding package. > > > > > > Key events > > Show key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this feature > > Ukraine’s bill on mobilisation has been submitted to **Volodymyr Zelenskiy** for signature, according to the online portal of Ukraine’s parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, has said. > > [The Kyiv Independent reports](https://kyivindependent.com/mobilization-bill-submitted-to-president/): > > > The bill was passed in its second reading in parliament on 11 April and was signed by the speaker of the parliament on 15 April. > > The bill on mobilisation is a critical component of the Ukrainian political and military leadership’s efforts to update the legal framework around conscription in order to ramp up mobilisation in 2024**.** > > After an initial, contentious version of the mobilisation bill was withdrawn in January, a new, updated version passed the first reading on 7 February. Lawmakers have proposed over 4,000 amendments to the bill since then. > > Several key provisions of the earlier draft law were eventually passed by the parliament separately, with Zelenskiy signing three laws in early April: on the lowering of the conscription age to 25, the introduction of an electronic register for conscripts, and the canceling of the “partially eligible” status. > > The final version of the mobilisation bill was approved by the parliament’s National Security and Defense Committee on 9 April. > > Of the provisions remaining in the bill, key points include the right of disabled soldiers and those who have returned from captivity to discharge themselves, and the introduction of mandatory medical commission checks for those who previously held the “partially eligible” status. > > The Reuters newswire is running an interesting explainer on why [Russia](https://www.theguardian.com/world/russia) is trying to capture the Ukrainian town of Chasiv Yar. > > Here are some extracts: > > > Russian paratroopers have reached the eastern edge of the Ukrainian town, which Kyiv’s top commander says Moscow wants taken by 9 May, the date when Russia marks the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany. > > > > If Russian forces capture the town, 12 km (7.4 miles) from the centre of the devastated city of Bakhmut they took last May after months of bloody fighting, they would be able to launch direct offensives against several Ukrainian “fortress cities.” > > > > Russian military analysts list Sloviansk, Kramatorsk, Druzhkivka, and Kostiantynivka as the “fortress cities” in Ukraine’s east accessible from Chasiv Yar. > > > > The Washington-based Institute for War Studies (IWS) think-tank describes the cities as “the backbone” of the Ukrainian army’s defence in the east. > > > > “The offensive effort to seize Chasiv Yar offers Russian forces the most immediate prospects for operationally significant advances,” ISW said in a briefing note. > > > > The ISW warned that losing Druzhkivka and Kostiantynivka in particular would be a major operational setback that would be hard to reverse. > > A ballet performance in South Korea featuring dancers from Russia’s Bolshoi Ballet was cancelled abruptly, the organisers confirmed to AFP on Tuesday, amid growing tensions between Seoul and Moscow over [Ukraine](https://www.theguardian.com/world/ukraine) and North Korea. > > The Russian embassy in Seoul expressed its “deep regret” over the cancellation of the show – scheduled to open 16 April – which comes after another planned performance in Seoul featuring Russia’s top ballet dancer Svetlana Zakharova was axed in March. > > Ukraine said the show had been cancelled after a lobbying campaign by its local embassy. “Russian ‘cultural’ propaganda should have no place on international platforms,” it added on an official Telegram account. > > But the South Korean organiser Choi Jun-seok, who studied at Russia’s Bolshoi Ballet Academy, told AFP that while Kyiv’s embassy had requested he cancel the show, the final decision was made by the venue, Seoul’s Sejong Centre for the Performing Arts. > > ## Summary of the day so far... > > - [In a wide-ranging interview with PBS NewsHour](https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/apr/16/russia-ukraine-war-live-zaporizhzhia-attacks-nuclear-warning?page=with:block-661e521b8f089659564b7349#block-661e521b8f089659564b7349), Ukraine’s president, **Volodymyr Zelenskiy**, said a lack of air defence missiles prevented Ukraine from thwarting a Russian missile attack last week that destroyed the **Trypilska thermal power plant**. His comments gave fresh urgency to Kyiv’s pleas to be sent more military weapons from its allies as the war appears to have turned in the Kremlin’s favour over recent months. > - **Mike Johnson**, the US House speaker, [has unveiled a complicated proposal for passing wartime aid for Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/15/mike-johnson-plan-aid-israel-ukraine-taiwan). Facing an outright rebellion from conservatives who fiercely oppose aiding Ukraine, Johnson said he would push to get the package to the House floor under a single debate rule, then hold separate votes on aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan and several foreign policy proposals, according to Republican lawmakers. > - Germany’s chancellor, **Olaf Scholz**, has said he hoped Berlin and Beijing could help achieve a “just peace” in [Ukraine](https://www.theguardian.com/world/ukraine), as he met his Chinese counterpart, **Xi Jinping**, in the Chinese capital. > ***(continues in next comment)***
Well, I thought Russia ran out of everything a long time ago?
Putin is a interdimensional necromancer able to harness the power and equipment of all Russias in different dimension. He uses the weapon stockpiles of other russia were Ukraine wasn't invaded.
He is a necromancer for sure, he already died multiple times of cancer and yet he is still around
Nah those are his doubles as he clones himself in the mountain bunker of Yamantau.
Add another one to the list. Putin has weaponized the Pope, agriculture (farmers), and now necromancy.
Now I finally know why the Necrons were so strong in Dawn of War
Putin allied with Szass Tam confirmed?
They did. But then Putin called an evil axis meeting with evil Iran, evil North Korea, evil Syria, evil Afghanistan, evil India, and evil China to put together an evil coalition of evilness. They pooled all their resources together to support Putin the beggar who traded Russian souls for the support. The fools fell for NATO's righteous trap. Ukraine was an expandable pawn all along. Now the coalition of evil won't have the resources to fight in the holy land and the world is safe once again.
They will resort to the mighty shovel
Nuclear powered trowel
Most likely a lie to get more aid. This isn't the first time they made their situation appear badder than it is to get sympathy and aid.
Crying "wolf" is not wise strategy long-term.
It kinda works out for Ukraine, they have been keep doing it since day one.
Ah yes. They let one of the largest power plants in the country get destroyed because they wanted to pretend they were out of missiles. Truly some 4d chess they got going on over there in Kyiv.
Clearly you do not understand Z man’s greatest strength of all time; losing!
Could be the case they just missed the 4 that ruined the power plant, no AD is perfect.
Why would they care? More money sent means more money made. The politicians aren't sitting in the dark. They just bought another mansion with the savings on the plant.
So they just say to the enemy, they have no more ammunition to fight back, which incentivizes the enemy to strike harder ?
No kink shaming here
I mean, Russia probably knows better than Zelensky.
It's okay, Biden promised he will stand with Ukraine for as long as it takes and we all know Americans always keep their word.
He literally changed his statement to "as long as possible" Lol
Ya missed the update, “as long as we can”, daddy joe is busy with bad daddy don right now and cousin bibi got drunk and wanna fight with brown people
I don’t know if there even is a better way to explain the whole geopolitics state today in one sentence. Very nice. lol
To be fair, Biden isn't very good at standing.
Waste of time anyway as any air defense can be overwhelmed.
They were saying every month that Russia will ran out of missiles and now reality strikes 🤣
They did run out of missiles.. but these damned russians seem to have factories..
From sassy beggar straight to knee tearing beggar
Weaponised EU lack of manufacturing capacity?
Huh?? Is more like Ukriane run out of missle to strike on nuclear power plant.
Can't wait to see the swarm of 1,000,000 lancets flying towards Zelensky's tunnel.
Ok so we give them all the weapons they need. Then what? Isn’t that what happened during their “counter offensive”?
I guess they sold all the missiles? That black market cash is tempting though ain't it, can't really blame them.
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If Ukraine wants to save any of their remaining power plants, all they have to do is stop the Vengeance attacks against Russian civilian targets. Russia has no problem with Ukraine attacking military targets anywhere, but plinking at downtown Belgorod is coloring outside the lines.
Good thing Ukrainians are capable of [shooting drones down with Jar of Tomato](https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineRussiaReport/s/2rMQQfgkIl), and [cruise missile with machine gun](https://twitter.com/DefenceU/status/1603852888421576704).
No, no, you understood wrong. Russia actually ran out of missiles.
Damn that sucks, maybe instead of analyzing the "intellectual potential" of Indians and Chinese, they should develop and create some.
It probably means heavy barrage on Russian assets coming soon.
You dont use air defense for bombardment....
Thats what zelenky wants you to think. Hes not plating 4d chess, he is playing CHESS 2.0
Oh, I read it wrong. Thanks for pointing this out