The Kremlin’s brutal “General Armageddon” armed forces commander has doubled down on Russia’s cruel campaign against Ukraine ’s civilian population with horrific missile attacks.
Chechnya war veteran General Sergei Suvorikin’s troops have stepped up attacks on Ukraine’s power and war supplies whilst smashing missiles and kamikaze drones into residential areas.
Suvorikin’s appetite for unleashing banned weapons on residential areas in war-zones has heightened fears he may carry out Putin’s threat of using weapons of mass destruction.
An early morning blitz on a Kyiv power plant and water and energy supplies throughout Ukraine left hundreds of thousands stranded and huddled in air-raid shelters.
Similar blasts in Dnipro, Mykolaiv and Zhytomyr left the threat of blackouts throughout Ukraine, lack of heating and water facing already terrified residents.
One security source said: “There is a change in the type of attacks now as the Russian step up even further their attempt to dismantle infrastructure.
“As winter sets in this will have serious consequences for the civilian population and Russia obviously feels Suvorikin is the man to carry out this campaign.
“Strategically the aim is to terrorise the entire country as militarily Russia is failing in the east and southern frontlines.”
Three people were killed in Kyiv and several others elsewhere in Ukraine amid fears of a mounting death toll from waves of Iran-supplied Kamikaze drones.
It is believed Russian President Vladimir Putin installed violence-obsessed Suvorikin in a desperate bid to cower the country’s civilian population.
The 55 year-old - who also served in Afghanistan and Syria- is also suspected of launching chemical attacks in Syria and is a Putin appointee.
And it is believed he was recently installed as in charge of the Ukraine campaign because of his ruthless reputation for targeting civilians.
Russian forces carried out fresh air strikes on Ukrainian energy facilities on Tuesday, causing
several explosions in an area of northern Kyiv, possibly on a thermal power station.
City mayor Vitali Klitschko said the attack was on "critical infrastructure" in northern Kyiv.
President Zelensky said: "Ukraine is under fire by the occupiers. They continue to do what they do best - terrorise and kill civilians.
"The terrorist state will not change anything for itself with such actions.
“It will only confirm its destructive and murderous essence, for which it will certainly be held to account."
Two air strikes hit an energy facility in the southeastern city of Dnipro, leaving a raging fire.
An air strike left the northern city of Zhytomyr without water and electricity supplies, its mayor said, and a Russian missile struck an apartment building in the Ukrainian port city of Mykolaiv.
The missile completely destroyed one wing of the building in the downtown area, leaving a large crater, killing one person so far.
Zelensky added: "In Mykolaiv, the enemy destroyed a residential building with C-300 missiles.
“A person died. There was also a strike at the flower market, the chestnut park.
“I wonder what the Russian terrorists were fighting against at these absolutely peaceful places.”
