More than seven million Ukrainian homes were left without electricity after Russia struck the country’s power grid, the Ukrainian presidency said on Tuesday, AFP reported.
“More than seven million houses are now without electricity” due to damage to 15 electrical installations in Ukraine, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, Deputy Head of the Administration of President Volodymyr Zelensky, reported on social media.
“Our electrical engineers are now doing everything possible to restore power as soon as possible,” he added.
Russian forces fired about 100 missiles across Ukraine on Tuesday, hitting several key energy infrastructures in various regions, a spokesman for the Ukrainian Air Force said, as quoted by AFP. Thus, several Ukrainian regions and cities were left without electricity.
Kyiv Mayor Vitaly Klitsyko said that at least three Russian rockets hit residential buildings in the capital of Ukraine.
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