KYIV: Eighty per cent of the Ukrainian capital was without water on Monday, at least temporarily, after Russia launched dozens of cruise missiles at critical infrastructure and other targets across the country Monday morning. Residents of Kyiv, the capital city, were directed to wells and emergency water distribution sites, and many lined up with plastic jugs to carry water home as utility crews raced to make repairs. Power was also knocked out in parts of Kyiv and other cities, officials said.
Ukraine’s air force said it had shot down 44 out of the more than 50 missiles fired from the Caspian Sea and the Rostov region of western Russia. Strikes hit 10 regions across Ukraine, damaging 18 “objects of civilian critical infrastruc-ture,” the foreign ministry said in a statement. Thirteen civilians were injured, the Ukrinform news agency reported.
On Monday, an official at Ukraine’s national energy utility, Ukrenergo, said power stations appeared again to be Russia’s primary target. Russia’s ministry of defence said it had taken aim at “the military control and energy systems of Ukraine.” Vitali Klitschko, the mayor of Kyiv, said engineers were working to restore the electricity supply after an energy facility that provides power to about 3,50,000 apartments in Kyiv was damaged. Traffic lights across the capital were out and cellular service was spotty. Local officials in the cities of Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv, and Cherkasy, all reported hit on critical infrastructure.
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