RUSSIA LAUNCHES NEW WAVE OF AIR STRIKES TARGETS ENERGY FACILITIES ACROSS UKRAINE

Tue 18 October 2022:

In the second day of Moscow’s raids, a new wave of Russian air attacks hit several locations in Ukraine, including key energy infrastructure in the north of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, causing several explosions, according to officials.

According to Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy head of the presidential office, three Russian strikes on an unspecified energy facility occurred on Tuesday.

The mayor of Kyiv said the attack was on “critical infrastructure,” and that emergency personnel were heading there.

“The city is still under air alert right now,” said Al Jazeera’s Mohammed Jamjoom, reporting from Kyiv. “There was one that went off this morning at 5am here in Kyiv, then it deactivated and another one started an hour and a half later,” he said.

Attacks were also reported in the northern city of Zhytomyr which was left without water and electricity supplies, its mayor Serhiy Sukhomlyn wrote on Facebook.

Russian forces “continue to do what they do best – terrorise and kill civilians”, said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Tuesday. He also said one person had been killed in a missile attack on a residential building in the southern city of Mykolaiv but gave no other details of casualties.

“Ukraine is under fire by the occupiers,” he wrote on the Telegram messaging app.

“The terrorist state will not change anything for itself with such actions. It will only confirm its destructive and murderous essence, for which it will certainly be held to account.”

The string of attacks comes a day after a drone struck a residential building in Kyiv, killing at least four people—among them a couple who were expecting a child. Following the strikes, electricity was cut off to hundreds of towns and villages.

The assaults on Monday occurred precisely one week after numerous Ukrainian cities were targeted by Russian missiles and drones in what appeared to be retaliation for the bombing of a crucial bridge that connects Crimea to mainland Russia. The bombing that damaged the Kerch bridge, a vital supply route for Russian forces fighting in Ukraine, has been attributed to Ukraine by Moscow.

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