No Water, No Electricity In Kyiv After Barrage Of Russian Missile Strikes Across Ukraine

A fresh barrage of Russian cruise missiles targeting Ukrainian infrastructure on Monday has left Kyiv¡¯s residents without water supply and power, according to the capital¡¯s mayor Vitali Klitschko. The strikes come just a day after Moscow accused Ukraine of attacking its Black Sea Fleet.

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Damage to Kyiv's infrastructure

Damage to a power facility near Kyiv caused the failure in the water infrastructure forcing residents to queue up at pumps after their own supplies were cut. 3,50,000 homes in the capital were left without electricity, the mayor wrote on this Telegram channel.

In addition to the capital, other areas affected by the strikes included Lviv, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv and Zaporizhzia. Overall, 18 facilities - most of them energy-generating - were hit by missiles and drones in 10 regions, Ukrainian officials said.

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Local authorities have been working on restoring the supplies as soon as possible, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said, telling Kyiv residents in the meantime to stock up on water from the nearest pump rooms and points of sale.

In a separate Telegram post, Klitschko added that water supplies in some areas of Kyiv will be restored in three to four hours, and power had already been restored in one of the city's districts.

Fresh missile strikes on Ukraine

Loud explosions were heard across the Ukrainian capital in the early morning as residents prepared to go to work. Many received text messages from the emergency services about the threat of a missile attack, and air raid sirens wailed for three hours straight.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal claimed that 44 out of the 50 rockets launched were shot down. Debris from one of the missiles shot down fell on a Moldovan village bordering Ukraine on Monday, causing material damage but no immediate casualties, the Moldovan government said.

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¡®The Russian strike targeted a Ukrainian dam on the Nistru river, which runs first through Ukraine and then through Moldova,¡± the country¡¯s Foreign Minister Nicu Popescu said on Twitter. ¡°Attacks on water infrastructure and ensuing stress on the river could put the entire region in danger of floods.¡±

Russia said the strikes were aimed at Ukraine's military control and energy systems and that all targets were hit. They were partly in response to an attack on a Russian warship over the weekend, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday.