Massive Missile strikes have Ukraine bracing for impact

A top defense official in Kyiv said that Ukraine is bracing for three or four “massive” missile strikes from Russia, while the Ukrainian president’s office suggested that Moscow may wait for more frigid weather in order to “deal the most sensitive blow.”
Oleksiy Danilov, secretary of the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council, said that Kyiv’s forces are able to shoot down up to 90 percent of Russian missiles, thanks to supplies of Western air-defense weapons, even as he gave the warning about imminent attacks. In an online interview on Friday, Danilov made the comments.
The latest Russian missile attack on the nation’s energy infrastructure on November 23, which plunged a significant part of the country, including Kyiv, into darkness, is still recovering from Ukraine.
DTEK, Ukraine’s biggest private electricity producer, warned on Saturday about emergency power cuts in the capital as well as in major cities such as Odesa and Dnipro, despite efforts to restore power supplies.
“Moscow is forced to look for additional supplies around the world,” Danilov said, adding that the amount of Russian missile weapons is rapidly decreasing.
An adviser to the office of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Mykhailo Podolyak, believes that Russia is changing the tactics of its missile strikes on Ukraine.
Podolyak said in an online interview Friday night that Russian forces “are waiting for an increase in frosts … so that the temperature at night drops to 8-10 degrees below zero, and at this moment they want to deal the most sensitive blow to Ukraine.”
The Washington-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said that Russia may be trying to generate another wave of refugees, with the aim of “pressuring Western officials to offer pre-emptive concessions because the Russian military has been unable to achieve strategic success.”