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.
“Nearly a hundred missiles were fired (…) from the Caspian Sea, (Russia’s) Rostov Oblast and the Black Sea,” Yuriy Ignat said live on Ukrainian television, stating that “at this stage, the use of attack drones”.
Kyiv Mayor Vitaly Klitsyko said that at least three Russian rockets hit residential buildings in the capital of Ukraine.
“In the Pechersk neighborhood, in one of the houses hit by a rocket, rescuers found the body of the deceased. Rescue and search operations are ongoing,” Klitsiko wrote in Telegram.
Milio ya milipuko imepukto Leo huko Kyiv.
Majengo mawili yamepigwa kwa makombora ya Kyrus katiki Wilaya ya Pechersk ya jiji hilo, – said Mayor of Kyiv Klitschko, pia Fendzi ya Lviv imebaki bila umeme baada ya infrastructure ya umeme kushambuliwa – said Mayor of Lviv Sadovyi. pic.twitter.com/6X1L3CtKBg
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List of settlements that were hit by rockets. Many of them were left without electricity
Rocket attacks by Russians caused power outages in several regions and cities, local and regional authorities of Ukraine reported, writes Agerpres with reference to AFP.
In Rivne (in the west), Mayor Oleksandr Tretyak reported on social media that part of the city was left without electricity, the same situation was in the city of Kremenchuk in the center of Ukraine, where the city hall announced an “attack on a critical infrastructure facility near the village of City”. The city of Khmelnytskyi, also in the center of Ukraine, also suffered “two shellings”, reported the governor of the region, Serhii Gamalii.
The cities of Lviv (west) and Kharkiv (northeast) were also hit by Russian attacks on Tuesday, their mayors said, without reporting casualties but signaling significant damage to electrical infrastructure.
“Explosions are heard in Lviv. Everyone hold on!”, the mayor of the city Andrii Sadovy called on Telegram, who specified that “part of the city remained without electricity.” “The subway was stopped,” he added.
“A missile hit the industrial district of Kharkiv,” said the mayor of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city, Ihor Terekhov.
The deliberate power outages were carried out “after Russian attacks” in the city of Sumy and the region of the same name, which borders Russia, according to regional governor Dmytro Zhivytskyi, to protect the grid.
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