Moscow has been launching devastating strikes on Ukraine’s power infrastructure as its forces suffer battlefield setbacks
By HANNA ARHIROVA
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — About 70 percent of the Ukrainian capital was left without power on Thursday morning after Moscow unleashed yet another devastating missile barrage on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, Kyiv’s mayor said.
A punishing barrage of Russian strikes on Ukrainian infrastructure on Wednesday caused power outages across large parts of the country, piling more damage onto Ukraine’s already battered power network and adding to the misery for civilians as winter begins. The strikes also caused power outages in neighboring Moldova.
Russia has been launching devastating strikes on Ukraine’s power infrastructure as its forces have suffered battlefield setbacks in the full-scale war that it launched on February 24, exactly nine months ago Thursday.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said in a Telegram statement that “power engineers are doing their best to get [electricity] back as soon as possible” and added that the water supply has been restored in about half of Kyiv on the left bank of the Dnieper River.
Ukraine’s General Staff reported on Thursday morning that Russian forces fired 67 cruise missiles and 10 drones during Wednesday’s “massive attack on residential buildings and energy infrastructure” in Kyiv and several other regions in Ukraine.
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