Ukraine war: Power and water supply hit across Ukraine in 'massive' Russian missile strikes - BBC

Ukraine says powerfulness and h2o supplies crossed the state person been severely deed aft Russia launched much than 50 missiles targeting captious facilities.

In the superior Kyiv, 80% of residents were without water, and astir 350,000 apartments had nary electricity, Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko said.

In the north-eastern metropolis of Kharkiv, vigor facilities were struck. Across Ukraine, 13 radical were injured.

Russia said it targeted Ukraine's subject bid and vigor systems.

The country's defence ministry added that each "designated objects were hit" by long-range high-precision weaponry.

Ukraine's subject said its aerial defences had changeable down 44 cruise missiles launched from the country of Russia's Rostov portion and the Caspian Sea.

The strikes travel aft Russia blamed Ukraine for a drone onslaught connected its Black Sea Fleet successful the annexed Crimea.

Mr Klitschko reported h2o shortages successful Kyiv aft an vigor installation adjacent the metropolis was damaged successful the Russian attack. He said the proviso would beryllium partially restored wrong 3 to 4 hours.

Long queues were seen crossed the metropolis arsenic residents were hopeless to cod h2o from pumps.

Mr Klitschko besides said that engineers were urgently deployed to reconstruct energy supply.

The metropolis authorities said that successful Kyiv itself "no hits were recorded" owed to "the effectual enactment of the aerial defence forces".

Missile strikes were besides reported connected Monday greeting successful the cardinal Vinnytsia region, arsenic good arsenic Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia successful the south-east, and Lviv successful occidental Ukraine.

A installation astatine the Dnipro hydroelectric powerfulness works successful the Zaporizhzhia portion was besides reportedly hit.

Overall, 18 facilities - astir of them energy-generating - were deed successful 10 regions of Ukraine, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said, adding that "hundreds of localities successful 7 regions" were near without power.

Moscow would similar this latest question of Russian rocket strikes to beryllium seen arsenic a punitive effect to the drone onslaught connected Russian subject targets successful Crimea connected Saturday.

The Kremlin sees this arsenic a warning: you situation to deed america successful Crimea? This is what you tin expect successful response.

But determination is simply a wide signifier emerging successful caller weeks successful this war.

The much setbacks Russia's service faces connected the battlefield, the much its commanders punish Ukraine's civilian population.

With wintertime conscionable astir the corner, Moscow is hoping to truthful demoralise Ukrainians truthful that they plead with their authorities to writer for bid - connected Russia's terms.

So far, that's improbable to happen. But determination is inactive a immense magnitude of harm and suffering that Russia's weapons tin inflict connected the civilian population.

The Kremlin volition besides beryllium hoping that arsenic this warfare drags on, Western enactment for Ukraine begins to weaken.

Russia's purpose is to interruption the proviso concatenation of Western weapons that allows Ukraine to support itself and effort to propulsion backmost this Russian invasion.

Residents successful the regions nether onslaught were urged to stay successful shelters, amid fears much strikes could follow. They were besides warned that "emergency powerfulness outages" were being rolled retired crossed the country.

In neighbouring Moldova, the authorities reported that a rocket changeable down by Ukraine fell successful the "northern extremity of the municipality of Naslavcea" adjacent the borderline with Ukraine. There were nary reports of immoderate casualties - but windows were smashed successful respective houses.

Ukraine's Air Force spokesperson Yuriy Ihnat told Ukrainian TV that Russia had utilized its strategical bombers to transportation retired its "massive" strikes.

Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said that "instead of warring connected the battlefield, Russia fights civilians".

Russia has carried retired respective waves of deadly rocket and drone attacks successful caller weeks, reportedly destroying astir a 3rd of Ukraine's powerfulness stations and different energy-generating facilities up of the acold wintertime period.

Ukraine and its Western allies person repeatedly said that targeting civilian infrastructure amounted to warfare crimes.

On Saturday, 1 Russian warship was damaged successful the larboard metropolis of Sevastopol successful a drone attack, the Russian defence ministry said. It besides accused British specialists of having trained the Ukrainian soldiers who past carried retired the strikes successful Crimea - Ukraine's confederate peninsula, annexed by Russia successful 2014.

Moscow provided nary grounds to backmost its claims.

Ukraine has not commented connected the issue, portion the UK defence ministry said Russia was "peddling mendacious claims connected an epic scale".