After Russian missiles hit vital infrastructures around the nation on Monday, people in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, had to stand in a water line. According to Vitaliy Klitschko, the city's mayor, 40% of Kyiv's users are still without water, and 270,000 residents are without electricity. In all, there were thirteen injuries from the attacks.
Russia said that all targets in the attacks, which were intended for Ukraine's military command and energy infrastructure, were struck. According to Russian President Vladimir Putin, they were partially in retaliation for an attack on a Russian warship over the weekend. The Ukrainian military reported that it had destroyed 45 of the 55 fired missiles in its evening update.
Rarely are the effects of Russian attacks on Ukraine's vital infrastructure disclosed to the outside world due to security concerns. According to Ukrainian officials, this is done to prevent the sharing of information about targets hit or perhaps missed in future assaults. However, the effects of Monday's strikes were evident everywhere. In a few areas, rolling power cuts have been used.
President Volodymyr Zelensky advised all Ukrainians to cut back on their nation's already "extremely frugal" electricity usage. Street lights were turned off, and regular buses took the place of the trolleybuses in Kyiv. After their personal supplies of water were cut off, locals lined up in long lines to gather water from pumps throughout the city.
According to reports, up to 80% of Kyiv's residents were left without running water in the immediate wake of the attacks. Later, Zelensky stated that reconnecting households with their services was still being worked on in his evening address. He continued in a defiant message that Russia lacked the weaponry necessary to extinguish "the Ukrainian will to live."
Along with the capital, Lviv, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, and Zaporizhzhia were all impacted by the strikes. Overall, 18 facilities-the majority of which produced energy-were struck by missiles and drones in ten different locations, according to Ukrainian officials. According to Moldovan authorities, one of the missiles that Ukraine's air defenses managed to intercept landed in a border town, causing damage to homes but no injuries.
Moldova later claimed, without identifying the individual, that a member of the Russian embassy staff in Chisinau had been instructed to leave the country. The strikes on Monday come after Russia accused Ukraine of launching a drone attack on its Black Sea Fleet in the occupied Crimean Peninsula over the weekend; Kyiv has not responded to the accusation. The strikes were partially intended as a reprisal, according to President Putin, who responded to inquiries from reporters on Monday night.
