KYIV: Russian forces hammered vitality infrastructure round Ukraine’s capital with missiles and drones in a single day, straining Kyiv’s energy provide and heating methods as temperatures headed in direction of zero, officers mentioned on Saturday (Nov 7).
Three days earlier than Russia and Ukraine are due to take part in US-brokered talks, explosions rocked Kyiv as Moscow unleashed waves of ballistic missiles, a number of of which hit and broken the Northern Bridge throughout the Dnipro River, Mayor Vitali Klitschko mentioned.
Strikes on vitality amenities outdoors Kyiv, together with methods sending energy from two nuclear crops to the town and Ukraine’s central areas, precipitated critical harm, the vitality ministry mentioned.
“The capital is dealing with critical difficulties with its electrical energy, water, and warmth provides,” President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned on X, including that substations in 5 different areas had been additionally hit.
He mentioned solely 4 of the 36 ballistic-type missiles launched by Russia had been intercepted, and that some had been North Korean-made and hit an essential vitality facility.
Not less than two folks had been killed and round a dozen others wounded throughout Ukraine within the in a single day assaults, which additionally broken properties, companies and non-residential buildings, authorities mentioned.
Moscow’s defence ministry mentioned it struck what it described as targets in Ukraine’s military-industrial sector, in addition to vitality and transport infrastructure in and round Kyiv.
Ukraine additionally carried out drone and missile assaults on a number of Russian areas, inflicting minor harm however no casualties, Russian authorities mentioned on Saturday.
