80% of Kyiv faces water shortage after Russian missile attacks

Kyiv's mayor Vitali Klitschko said that recent Russian missile strikes left 80 percent of Ukraine's capital without water supply | Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP via Getty Images

According to Kyiv's mayor Vitali Klitschko, a fresh barrage of Russian cruise missiles targeting Ukrainian infrastructure on Monday left 80 percent of the city's residents without water.

The failure of the water infrastructure was due to damage to a power plant near Kyiv. The mayor wrote on this Telegram channel that 350,000 homes in the capital were left without power.

"In case of emergency, please stock up on water from the closest pumps and retail locations," Klitschko added.

On Monday morning, plants and hydroelectric dams across Ukraine were attacked, leaving "hundreds of localities in seven regions of Ukraine" without electricity, according to Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal's Telegram message.

"Russian terrorists have again launched a massive assault on Ukraine. Their targets are not military installations, but rather critical civilian infrastructure, according to Shmyhal.

The minister stated that 44 of the 50 launched rockets were intercepted. On Monday, debris from one of the intercepted missiles fell on a Moldovan village bordering Ukraine, causing material damage but no immediate casualties, according to the Moldovan government.

"The Russian attack was aimed at a Ukrainian dam on the Nistru river, which flows first through Ukraine and then into Moldova," Moldova's foreign minister tweeted. Attacks on water infrastructure and the resulting strain on the river could place the entire region at risk for flooding.

Publish : 2022-11-01 09:35:00

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