Putin unleashes hell on earth as bombs rain down on major Ukraine cities in fresh blitz

Russian forces have launched a string of missile attacks across Ukraine on Monday morning, striking the capital Kyiv, according to Ukrainian officials. Several explosions were heard in Kyiv on Monday morning, with local media outlet the Kyiv Independent reporting that seven or eight blasts were recorded in the early hours.

It followed air raid sirens being heard across many regions of Ukraine, including Kyiv.

The city’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said civilian infratructure had been damaged in the city after the wave of strikes.

He wrote that engineers were working to bring electricity back “after damage to an energy facility that powers about 350,000 apartments in Kyiv”.

He added to residents on Telegram: “Specialists, together with other emergency services and authorities are doing everything possible to stabilise the situation as soon as possible.”

The facility is the largest on the Dnipro River, and Zaporizhzhia is one of four Ukrainian regions announced as “annexed” by Moscow last month.

Acting mayor of Zaporizhzhia, Anatolii Kurtiev, was quoted by the Kyiv Independent as saying Russian forces had zeroed in on the oblast’s critical energy infrastructure.

Other regions to the west and south of the country, as well as north-eastern Kharkiv, reported similar targeting.

Iuliia Mendel, a former spokesperson to Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, wrote that Ukrainian air defence had managed to deflect more strikes in Lviv in the west, the central Poltava region and Vinnystia, to the west of the centre.

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She described the infrastructure in Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv and the central Ukrainian city of Cherkasy as more heavily damaged.

Experts have previously predicted that Russia would look to take out much of Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure.

In an update shortly after 8am on Monday, Kyiv governor Oleksiy Kuleba, said that one person had been confirmed dead in the Kyiv strikes.

He said said experts were working on restoring energy to the parts of Kyiv where power was knocked out by the strikes and that emergency power cuts had been brought in throughout the Kyiv region.

He continued: “Prepare for long-term power outages. There is currently one victim, we are clarifying the information.

“There is also the destruction of private buildings. I urge everyone to whom blackouts do not apply to use electricity sparingly.”

source: express.co.uk