Water and power supplies have been restored in Kyiv after they were halted due to Russian strikes at the capital and other cities, the city’s mayor announced on Tuesday.
“Water supplies to the homes of Kyiv residents have been fully restored. Electricity supplies in Kyiv have also been restored,” Mr Vitali Klitschko said on social media. He also warned that there would be planned power cuts because of “Considerable deficit” in the power supply as a result of the strikes.
80 per cent of Kyiv residents on Monday faced power outages and water cuts as Russian missiles struck key infrastructure facilities in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv and the central region of Cherkasy. The Ukraine army said that Russia launched 55 cruise missiles and dozens of other munitions across the country. CNN reported that Ukraine was under massive blackouts and the residents are under severe water shortages as one of the strikes hit an energy facility that powered 350,000 apartments in the capital. Moreover, emergency services were provided to stabilize the situation.
Presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovich on Tuesday called the bombardment “one of the most massive shellings of our territory by the army of the Russian Federation”. However, he thanked the west for its supplies which helped in preventing severe damage.
The strikes came in retaliation to the attacks at Sevastopol port allegedly by Ukraine which even led to the cancellation of UN brokered grain export deal. Ukraine says Russian strikes over the past month have destroyed around a third of its power stations and has urged Ukrainians to save on electricity as much as possible.
It has also accused Russia of inventing “fictitious terrorist attacks” and using the deal as “blackmail.” By Sunday, more than 200 vessels had been blocked from making shipments, Ukraine said. A growing number of Kyiv’s allies condemned Moscow’s move.