Russia’s armed forces launched a new missile attack on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities on Tuesday, Reuters and Ukrainian media reported.

19:17Russian 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”.

18:51Kyiv authorities said four missiles were intercepted by Ukrainian air defense, but those that missed hit two high-rise residential buildings in Pechersk. This area is a few kilometers north of the presidential palace, The Guardian reports.

18:40 Missile attacks carried out by Russians in Ukraine caused power outages in several regions and cities, local and regional authorities of Ukraine said, AFP reports.

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.

18:28The mayor of Lviv reported that 80% of the city was left without electricity, hot water and heat. Public transport was halted by authorities, who also announced that at least one person had been hospitalized for injuries sustained in the rocket fire.

18:26The authorities are asking residents to stay in shelters after another explosion in the Ukrainian capital, the Kyiv correspondent of The Guardian reports.

18:00The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, Wopke Hoekstra, who is on a visit to Kyiv, was forced to hide in a bunker after the anti-aircraft warning signals began to sound on the eve of the Russian missile strikes, CNN reports.

17:34Journalist Ilya Ponomarenko from the Kyiv Independent posted footage from a Kyiv metro station on Twitter as air raid sirens rang out in the Ukrainian capital.

17:23At least one person died as a result of a Russian missile attack on a residential building in Kyiv, the city administration reports.

Mayor Vitaly Klitschko announced that one victim was pulled out of a bombed-out residential building in the central district of Pechersk, Reuters reports.

17:18Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba reacted on Twitter to attacks by Russian troops, including on Kyiv on Tuesday, when Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was attending the G20 summit in Bali, and accused Ukraine of obstructing peace.

“Russian missiles are killing people and destroying infrastructure in Ukraine right now. This is what Russia has to say about the peace talks. (…) This terror can only be stopped by the power of our weapons and our principles,” the official said. wrote in Ukrainian

17:13The Office of President Volodymyr Zelenskyi declares a critical energy situation in the north and center of the country after new Russian missile attacks.

17:00 An emergency power outage was introduced in Kyiv to preserve the power supply. Half of the residents of the Ukrainian capital would be left without electricity.

According to the mayor of Kyiv, at least half of the city remained without electricity.

……………………………………..

Mayor of Kyiv Vitaliy Klitschko said that Russian rockets hit two buildings, and 4 more rockets were intercepted.

Residents of both the left and right banks of the Dnieper, which flows through the Ukrainian capital, reported hearing explosions. An air alert has been announced in the area of ​​the Ukrainian capital.

One of the Russian missiles was intercepted over Kyiv:

The heads of the military administrations of Kryvyi Rih and Mykolaiv Oblast reported on the mass launch of missiles by the Russian armed forces.

An air alert has been announced in 15 regions of Ukraine. Regional leaders urge residents to stay in shelters.

The mayors of Kharkiv and Lviv reported that their cities were partially without electricity after the terrorist attacks in Russia. In Kharkiv, the metro was also stopped.

Ukraine accuses Russia of not wanting peace

“Russia responds to Zelensky’s powerful speech [summitul] G20 with new missile attack. Does anyone seriously believe that the Kremlin really wants peace?” Andriy Yermak, the head of the Office of President Volodymyr Zelensky, wrote on Twitter.

During a video conference at the summit in Indonesia, the Ukrainian president also presented a 10-point plan to end the war, demanding, among other things, that Russia vacate territories occupied by its armed forces.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov rejected Kyiv’s demands as “unrealistic”.

Follow the latest events of the 265th day of the war in Ukraine LIVETEXT on HOTNEWS.RO.