Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said Kyiv’s entire water system was shut off Friday morning following major Russian attacks on the Ukrainian capital.
“Due to damage to energy infrastructure, there are interruptions in water supply to all districts of the capital,” Klitsko wrote on a telegram, advising residents to “prepare supplies” of water and “stay in shelters”.
The mayor said metro traffic in Kyiv has been halted, while underground metro stations are serving as shelters.
“Internet connections, electricity to recharge gadgets, drinking water and sanitation facilities will be available at underground stations,” Kiltsko said, adding that locals should “wear winter clothes and extra warm clothes.”
Several cities in eastern Ukraine were also attacked on Friday.
Mayor Ihor Terekhov said on Telegram that an “infrastructure facility” in Kharkiv in the northeast had been affected, adding that the city was without power.
Two people were killed and at least five were injured, including two children, after a Russian missile hit a residential building in Kryvyi Rih, the region’s governor, Valentin Reznichenko, said.
At 12:29 p.m. local time (11:29 a.m. CET), air raid alerts were lifted for most of the country, according to an alert map published. Twitter,
Russia is continuously shelling Ukrainian energy infrastructure in recent weeks, prompting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to reveal that he was using the winter as a “Weapons of Mass Destruction.,
In mid-October, Zelensky reported that “thirty percent” of Ukraine’s power stations had been destroyed. destroyed in a week.
In novemberLarge parts of the country, including Kyiv, were left in the dark after the Russian attacks.