Ukraine war: Kyiv locals queue for water after Russian strikes

People successful the Ukrainian superior Kyiv had to queue for h2o aft Russian missiles struck cardinal facilities crossed the state connected Monday.

An evening update from the city's mayor, Vitaliy Klitschko, said 40% of consumers successful Kyiv remained without water, and 270,000 homes had nary power.

Thirteen radical were injured successful the attacks nationwide, Ukraine said.

Russia said the strikes were aimed astatine Ukraine's subject power and vigor systems, and that each targets were hit.

But the Ukrainian subject said it had changeable down 45 retired of 55 missiles that were launched.

For information reasons, the extracurricular satellite is seldom shown the demolition of Ukraine's captious infrastructure by Russian airstrikes.

Ukrainian officials accidental this is to debar sharing accusation that could beryllium utilized successful aboriginal attacks, including locations deed - oregon perchance missed.

But the consequences of Monday's strikes were everyplace to beryllium seen. Rolling powerfulness cuts person been introduced successful respective regions.

Ukrainians successful wide person been urged to trim what is already an "extremely frugal" energy consumption, successful the words of President Volodymyr Zelensky.

In Kyiv, streetlights were turned disconnected and trolleybuses replaced with accepted buses.

Long queues were seen crossed the city, arsenic residents lined up to cod h2o from pumps aft their ain supplies were cut.

Mr Klitschko earlier said arsenic galore arsenic 80% of Kyiv's consumers had been near without h2o successful their homes, and urged chap residents of the superior to caput retired and banal up.

In a aboriginal update, helium said galore households had been reconnected.

In summation to the capital, different areas affected by the strikes included Lviv, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv and Zaporizhzia.

Overall, 18 facilities - astir of them energy-generating - were deed successful 10 regions, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said.

One of the missiles intercepted by Ukraine's aerial defences landed successful a borderline municipality successful Moldova, causing harm to houses but nary casualties, according to authorities successful the neighbouring country.

Moldova aboriginal said a Russian embassy worker successful Chisinau had been told to permission its territory - without specifying who the idiosyncratic was.

Monday's strikes came aft Russia blamed Ukraine for a drone onslaught connected its Black Sea Fleet successful the annexed Crimean peninsula implicit the weekend.

Kyiv is yet to remark connected that incident, during which a Russian warship was damaged successful the larboard metropolis of Sevastopol.

After the attack, Russia pulled retired of a UN-brokered woody which allows harmless transition to ships carrying atom from Ukrainian ports - though Ukraine said connected Monday that ships were continuing to depart.

The caller question of attacks was the latest illustration of what has go Russia's strategy successful Ukraine: the targeting of the important infrastructure earlier winter, erstwhile temperatures tin driblet to -20C.

Ukraine says this is Russia's effect to its subject defeats, arsenic the Ukrainian service takes backmost territory successful a palmy counter-offensive.

The Ukrainian defence curate Oleksii Reznikov has linked the Russian run to General Sergei Surovikin - who was appointed by President Vladimir Putin arsenic his caller commandant successful Ukraine earlier this month.

In a uncommon quality league past week, the curate said Russian forces had "changed their tactics" aft the accomplishment of Gen Surovikin - whose nickname is Gen Armageddon - and "started openly warring with the civilian population, not with the equipped forces of Ukraine".

The goal, helium said, was to inflict "chaos and panic" successful the population, "when it's precise acold and dark".

President Zelensky has described this maneuver arsenic "terrorism". Many Ukrainians accidental they are not acrophobic - though galore are aggravated that civilians have, again, go the target.

"Instead of warring connected the battlefield, Russia fights civilians," Dmytro Kuleba, the Ukrainian overseas minister, said connected Monday greeting - echoing a presumption shared by galore of his compatriots.

Ukraine says it needs much aerial defence capabilities to support its cities. Germany has already sent equipment, and the UK and the US person announced they volition bash so.