Ukraine: 32,000 civilian facilities damaged since start of war

A total of 32 thousand civilian facilities have been damaged in Ukraine since the start of the war, says Yevhen Yenin, Ukraine’s First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs.

“There are about 32 thousand such facilities hit by Russia’s projectiles up to date. Those are mainly residential buildings, both private ones and apartment blocks,” Ukrainska Pravda quotes Yenin. Only 3% of the attacks targeted military facilities, he says.

“Critical infrastructure facilities remain in Russia’s crosshairs. Over 700 critical infrastructure facilities have been damaged so far. Those are airfields, bridges, oil deposits, electrical substations and so on,” he said.

Ukraine suffered yet another mass missile attack on 23 November. A missile hit a house in Vyshhorod. The country’s Energy Ministry revealed after the attack that all nuclear stations and most other power stations had been temporarily switched off.

Two thirds of Kyiv remained without electricity by the morning of 24 November. It was reported on Saturday that 130 thousand Kyiv residents still had no access to electricity; the whole city’s water supply has been restored in full, though, with cellular networks up and running “almost” in all districts.