Bursts of Russian strikes fell on Ukraine on Friday morning, causing water cuts in the capital Kyiv and new power interruptions in several cities of the country.
“Due to the damage to the energy infrastructure, there are water supply interruptions in all areas of the capital,” Vitali Klitschko, mayor of Kyiv, said on Telegram.
“Don’t leave the shelters! The attack on the capital is still ongoing!” he asked Kyiv residents on Telegram.
The morning Russian strikes also caused the metro to be shut down so that the stations could serve as shelters.
According to Klitschko, several explosions were reported, including at least one explosion “in the Golosiïvskiï district”, which encompasses the southern part of the city center and southern Kyiv.
The administration of Boutcha, where Russian soldiers are accused of having committed atrocities during their occupation of this suburb of kyiv, announced that “anti-aircraft forces shot down an enemy missile” near the locality, without giving more details.
The mayors of Kharkiv (north-east) and Poltava (center-east) announced that their cities were without electricity following morning bombings.
“Kharkiv has no more electricity,” the mayor of Ukraine’s second city, Igor Terekhov, lamented on Telegram.
His Poltava counterpart, Oleksandre Mamaï, asked him to the population “to turn off all electrical appliances”. “The airstrike is still ongoing,” he added, urging civilians to “remain calm.”
An adviser to the Ukrainian presidency, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, finally declared on Telegram that “a residential building” in the city of Kryvyi Rig (south) had been “affected”.
“There is damage. There may be people under the rubble,” he added, indicating that “emergency services are on site.”
Mr. Tymoshenko, however, did not say whether it was a Russian missile that had hit the building or the debris of the anti-aircraft defense.
“Without electricity (…) the heating system no longer works” in the city of Kremenchuk, in the center of the country, its mayor, Valéri Maletskiï, indicated on Telegram.
Due to these strikes, “electric trains” running in the regions of Kharkiv, Kivograd, Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk “will run with reserve locomotives”, indicated the Ukrainian railways.
Multiple strikes have also targeted the Zaporizhia region, according to its governor, Oleksandre Staroukh.