On Monday, at the beginning of the new week, Russia again fired rockets at numerous cities in Ukraine. There was an air alert across the country, and the Ukrainian anti-aircraft defense was active, according to the local authorities.
Explosions could also be heard in the capital Kyiv, in Kharkiv and Zaporizhia and in the west of the country. It was said that some important infrastructure had been hit.
Kyiv largely without water supply
Large parts of the water supply in the Ukrainian capital were cut off by one of the Russian rocket hits. Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported in a message on Telegram that 80 percent of the consumption points were affected. Experts tried to repair the damage as quickly as possible. Klitschko promised that water would flow again in the parts of the city east of the Dnipro River in the early afternoon. This will only be possible in some parts on the west bank with the center of the megacity.
Klitschko advised the people of Kyiv to stock up on drinking water at public pumps if necessary. The city government published a map of these fountains. The failure of the water system was related to damage to the power supply. Klitschko wrote that 350,000 households were also without electricity. For the area around the capital, Governor Oleksiy Kuleba announced that the population should prepare for long power outages.
250 days of war
The authorities called on people to get to safety in bunkers and other rooms. The Russian war of aggression against the neighboring country has already lasted 250 days this Monday. The Ukrainian Air Force said in the morning that 44 of the more than 50 missiles launched by Russian bombers had been shot down.
According to the first official information, the Russian troops - as on previous Mondays - launched dozens of rocket attacks in the morning rush hour. Recently, there have always been deaths and injuries. Nothing was initially known about new victims in the morning.
Energy infrastructure under attack
Russia had declared that it was particularly targeting the neighboring country's energy infrastructure. Ukraine speaks of "energy terror" with the aim of plunging people into darkness, cold and fear and thus driving them to flee to the EU.
Russia is continuing its attacks on civilian infrastructure, the head of the Ukrainian Presidential Office, Andriy Yermak, said in his blog on the Telegram news channel. "We will persevere. And this disgrace will cost entire generations of Russians dearly," he announced. At the same time, he called for more weapons and new sanctions against Russia from the West.
