Russian assaults hit ‘essential infrastructure’ north of Kyiv and in Zhytomyr whereas one particular person was killed in raid on the southern metropolis of Mykolaiv.
A brand new wave of Russian air assaults has hit a number of places in Ukraine, together with key vitality infrastructure within the north of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, inflicting a number of explosions, officers have mentioned, within the second day of raids by Moscow.
Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy head of the presidential workplace, mentioned on Tuesday there had been three Russian strikes on an unspecified vitality facility. Kyiv’s mayor mentioned the assault was on “essential infrastructure” and emergency employees had been heading there.
“The town remains to be below air alert proper now,” mentioned Al Jazeera’s Mohammed Jamjoom, reporting from Kyiv. “There was one which went off this morning at 5am right here in Kyiv, then it deactivated and one other one began an hour and a half later,” he mentioned.
Assaults had been additionally reported within the northern metropolis of Zhytomyr which was left with out water and electrical energy provides, its mayor Serhiy Sukhomlyn wrote on Fb.
Russian forces “proceed to do what they do greatest – terrorise and kill civilians”, mentioned Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Tuesday. He additionally mentioned one particular person had been killed in a missile assault on a residential constructing within the southern metropolis of Mykolaiv however gave no different particulars of casualties.
“Ukraine is below hearth by the occupiers,” he wrote on the Telegram messaging app.
“The terrorist state is not going to change something for itself with such actions. It is going to solely verify its damaging and murderous essence, for which it would actually be held to account.”
The wave of assaults comes a day after at the least 4 individuals, together with a pair anticipating a child, had been killed after a drone hit a residential constructing in Kyiv. A whole lot of cities and villages had been reduce off from energy following the strikes.
Monday’s assaults got here precisely every week after a number of Ukrainian cities had been hit with Russian missiles and drones in obvious revenge for the bombing of a key bridge connecting Crimea to mainland Russia. Moscow has blamed Ukraine for the bombing that broken the Kerch bridge – a key provide route for Russian forces preventing in Ukraine.
