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Russia launched this Monday more than 50 missiles targeted critical infrastructure in Ukraine, including the capital Kyiv, causing power and water outages, Ukrainian authorities reported.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said that 50% of residents did not have water and about 350.000 apartments do not have electricity.
In the northeastern city of Kharkiv power facilities were also attacked.
Russia said its high-precision, long-range weaponry was aimed at Ukraine’s military command and energy systems.
The country’s Ministry of Defense added that all “designated objects were hit”.
I bombed them They come after Russia blamed Ukraine for a drone attack on its Black Sea fleet in the Russian-annexed Crimean peninsula.
Klitschko reported a lack of water in Kyiv after a power facility near the city was damaged in the Russian attack. 
He also indicated that engineers were sent urgently to restore the power supply in the city.
The authorities indicated that “no hits were recorded” in Kyiv due to the “effective work of the air defense forces”.
I also know missile strikes were reported in the central Vinnytsia region, as well as in Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhia in the southeast, and Lviv in western Ukraine.
According to reports, a facility at the Dnipro hydroelectric power plant in the Zaporizhia region was also attacked.
In total, 12 installations, most of them power generators, were attacked in 10 regions of Ukraine, noted Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal.
He added that “hundreds of towns in seven regions” were left without electricity.
It was not immediately known if there were any casualties.
Massive attacks
The authorities urged the residents of the attacked regions to remain in shelters, amid fears of further attacks.
They were also warned that “emergency power outages” were occurring throughout the country.
In neighboring Moldova, authorities reported that a missile shot down by Ukraine fell in the “northern end of the city of Naslavcea”, near the border with Ukraine.
There were no reports of casualties, but windows were broken in several houses s.
Ukrainian Air Force spokesman Yuriy Ihnat told Ukrainian television that Russia had used its strategic bombers to carry out its “massive” attacks.
The Ukrainian army later indicated that they had been shot down 44 of the more than 50 cruise missiles X-89 and X-673 launched from the Russian region of Rostov and also from the Caspian Sea.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba noted that “instead of fighting on the battlefield, Russia is fighting civilians”.
In recent weeks Russia has been carrying out several waves of deadly missile and drone attacks and, according toreports, has destroyed, before the arrival of the cold winter, almost a third of the country’s power plants and other facilities to generate energy.
Ukraine and its Western allies have repeatedly said that targeting civilian infrastructure
amounts to war crimes.
On Saturday, a Russian warship was damaged in the port city of Sevastopol in a drone strike, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
Also accused British specialists for having trained the Ukrainian soldiers who later carried out the attacks in Crimea, the peninsula south of Ukraine that Russia annexed in 1200.
Moscow did not offer evidence to support his claims.
Ukraine has not commented on the issue, but the UK Ministry of Defense said Russia was “selling false claims on an epic scale”.
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