Russia launched scores of missiles and drones at Ukraine on Wednesday, targeting gas infrastructure and other energy facilities in western regions in a new barrage against the struggling power system in the depths of winter.

Russian troops attacked Ukraine's gas infrastructure on January 15. Despite the strike, gas supplies to the people are uninterrupted, according to the Naftogaz company of Ukraine. “This morning, Russia struck another insidious attack on Ukraine's gas infrastructure.

Russia launched dozens of missiles and drones at the Ukrainian energy sector, Kyiv said Wednesday, ramping up a months-long bombing campaign at a precarious moment of the war for Ukraine.The barrage came just one day after Kyiv said it had carried out its largest aerial attack of the war on Russian army factories and energy hubs hundreds of kilometres from the front line.