More than two million residents of kyiv were left without water and electricity after a barrage of Russian missile attacks on critical infrastructure across Ukraine on Monday morning.
Ukrainian authorities reported attacks in the country’s capital, as well as in eastern Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia in the south, cutting off power and water supplies in some areas and leaving air raid sirens blaring across Ukraine.
Smoke could be seen rising over kyiv after more than 10 explosions, witnesses said.
Mayor Vitali Klitschko said that 70 percent of the city’s three million consumers were left without water supply due to damage in an electrical installation.
The authorities said that 350,000 apartments in the Ukrainian capital also lost power, while mobile phone systems did not work in some areas.
Klitschko advised kyiv residents to “stock up on water from the nearest pump rooms and outlets” while authorities worked to restore supplies.
Officials also reported possible power outages in the cities of Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia as a result of the strikes .
Ihor Terekhov, the mayor of Kharkiv, said the northeastern city was hit by two missiles targeting “a critical infrastructure facility”, and the metro stopped working. Some parts of Ukrainian railways were also without power, the Ukrainian railway company reported.
The Russian Defense Ministry said its forces carried out “high-precision air and sea weapons strikes and long range against the military command and power systems of Ukraine”.
“The objectives of the strikes were achieved. All designated targets were achieved,” the ministry said in a statement.
Andriy Yermak, chief of staff to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, said of Monday’s attack on the Telegram messaging app: ” The Russian losers continue to wage war against civilian installations.”
The attack comes two days after Russia accused Ukraine of a drone attack on Russia’s Black Sea Fleet off the coast of the annexed Crimean peninsula.
Ukraine has denied the attack, saying Russia handled its own weapons, but Moscow still announced it would stop participating in a UN-brokered deal to allow safe passage for ships carrying grain from Ukraine.
Monday’s bombing marks the second time this month that Russia has unleashed a massive barrage of attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure.
On 10 October, a similar attack shook the country devastated by the war after an explosion on the Kerch bridge linking Crimea with mainland Russia, an incident that Moscow blamed on Kyiv.
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