About 30 percent of power plants across Ukraine were destroyed by Russian attacks in the last week alone, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Tuesday.
Train stations in Kyiv and in several regions of the country were bombed this morning. As a result, the country is experiencing “mass outages,” according to the Ukrainian president. In the Ukrainian capital, two people died as a result of the bombings that were carried out in the city for the second week in a row.
The attacks are part of the Russian government’s new strategy to attack the infrastructure of major Ukrainian cities in order to destabilize them. The Russian government confirmed the strategy (Read more below).
“Since October 10, 30% of power plants have been destroyed, which has led to significant cuts in the country,” said Zelenskyy. “They continue to do what they do best terrorize and kill civilians.”
In Kyiv, the operator DTEK recorded “disruptions” in the electricity and water supply on the left bank of the capital. “Engineers are making every effort necessary to restore power,” the operator said.
Ukrainian police fire on drones attacking Kyiv
More than a week ago, Kyiv, which had been relatively quiet since late March, was again the target of Russian bombing. Last week Moscow launched the worst attack on the Ukrainian capital since the war began on February 24.
The offensive is a harsh response by Russian President Vladimir Putin to the blast recorded days earlier at the bridge linking Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula illegally annexed by Russia in 2014 to the Russian occupation and captured personally by Vladimir Putin in 2018 inaugurated.
Officially, the Ukrainian government took no responsibility for the explosion on the bridge, but Kyiv expected a strong response from Russia.
Also on Tuesday, Ukraine received 2 billion euros (about R$10 million) in aid from the European Union.
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