Local residents have reported explosions in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Kryvyi Rih, and other Ukrainian cities.
Emergency power shutdowns are being carried out across all of Ukraine due to massive shelling of critical infrastructure objects conducted by Russia, Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Kyrylo Tymoshenko announces.
Ukraine’s Armed Forces declare to have destroyed 44 out of 50 cruise missiles launched by Russian troops. The Ukrainian side reports that over 50 Х-101/Х-555 cruise missile were launched from the Tu-95 and Tu-160 bombers from the north of the Caspian Sea and the area of the city of Volgodonsk, Rostov region of Russia.
Mayor of Kyiv Vitali Klitschko says that, following shelling of critical infrastructure objects, part of the Ukrainian capital has been left without electricity, while several districts — without water. According to Klitschko, an object providing about 350,000 flats with electricity has been damaged in the attack on the city. Specialists are currently trying to stabilise the situation. Correspondent for BBC reports that power has gone out and mobile connection has been lost in Kyiv following the explosions.
Kyiv’s military administration states that the air defence system has been activated and that power has been partially shut off in the city.
There are reports of attacks in the area of the Dnipro Hydroelectric Power Plant in the city of Zaporizhzhia, Dnister Hydroelectric Power Plant, and the Kremenchuk Hydroelectric Power Plant. Russian TV channel Zvezda curated by Russia’s Ministry of Defence has published video recordings of explosions in these areas on its Telegram channel.
Mayor of Kharkiv Ihor Terekhov reports two explosions in the city. “Two ‘arrivals’ into Kharkiv. The enemy hit a critical infrastructure object in the city,” he writes in a Telegram post.
Head of the Kharkiv military administration Oleh Synegubov says that the attack was carried out via S-300 complex missiles, which had been launched from the Russian city of Belgorod. “Critical infrastructure objects have been damaged. Thus, some problems with electricity are possible. Currently, there are no reports of injured,” Synegubov writes.
The Kharkiv metro reports to have temporarily shut down its services.
Russian troops have attacked a critical infrastructure object in the city of Zaporizhzhia, secretary of the City Council of Zaporizhzhia Anatolii Kurtiev says. “Due to the attack, cases of power being turned off have occurred in the city. Information on the victims and the amount of damage is being obtained,” he writes.
Several rockets have been launched in the direction of the city of Kryvyi Rih, head of the city military administration Oleksandr Vilkul says. “Kryvyi Rih! Stay in shelters! Several more groups of rockets heading in our direction,” his message reads.
Head of the Cherkasy region military administration Ihor Taburets reports Russian troops attacking one of the critical infrastructure objects, due to which part of the region has been left without electricity.
There are also reports about explosions in the Zaporizhzia, Vinnytsia, Kropyvnytskyi, Poltava, and Dnipro regions. In particular, a shot down rocket fell on civilian objects in the Vinnytsia region, there are no casualties, head of the regional administration Serhiy Borzov says. Air raid warning has been declared in all Ukrainian regions, except the Russia-occupied ones.
Russia’s Ministry of Defence has not yet commented on the situation. Russian forces have been regularly attacking Ukraine’s power facilities for almost a month.
In particular, local authorities reported explosions in Kyiv, Kharkov, Dnipro, Zhytomyr, and other cities of Ukraine on 18 October. Russian forces also carried out massive strikes on the cities of Kyiv, Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia, Odesa, Lviv, Sumy, Kryvyi Rih, Khmelnytskyi, and Ternopil on 10 October.
