Lviv, Ukraine, Oct 18 (EFE).- No less than two individuals have been killed in recent Russian missile strikes which focused essential power provide stations in Kyiv on Tuesday, native authorities mentioned.

One other individual was injured within the aerial strikes on the capital’s northeastern Desnyanskyi district, town’s prosecutor’s workplace mentioned in a press release cited by the Kyiv Impartial.

Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy claimed Russia had destroyed 30% of Ukraine’s energy stations since launching a wave of assaults on October 10 and had precipitated “large blackouts throughout the nation.”

“No area left for negotiations with Putin regime,” he added.

Kyiv mayor Vitaly Klitschko mentioned the Russian strikes on Tuesday hit “essential infrastructure,” inflicting electrical energy and water shortages in some elements of town.

The most recent aerial assaults come a day after Russia launched a sequence of drone strikes on the Ukrainian capital, killing a minimum of 5 individuals, mentioned Klitschko, elevating the loss of life toll Tuesday by one.

“From underneath the rubble of a constructing within the middle of the capital, which was hit by a Russian kamikaze drone yesterday morning, the physique of one other deceased resident – an aged lady – was recovered,” he tweeted.

On-line information portal Ukrainskaya Pravda on Tuesday reported Russian missile hearth on Tuesday additionally hit the Ukrainian cities Dnipro, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, and Zhytomyr.

Zhytomyr mayor Sergiy Sukhomlyn mentioned on social media that the electrical energy and water provides have been affected.

The wave of Russian assaults in opposition to Ukraine’s power hubs forward of winter has prompted Ukrainian authorities to take measures to stabilize the electrical energy community, together with a suspension of exports to the European Union. EFE
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