MOSCOW: In an apparent quick attempt by Russia to plunge Ukraine into cold and dark, airstrikes on Tuesday affected energy and infrastructure across the country and cut electricity and water supplies to the repeatedly bombed Ukrainian city .

According to Mayor Serhi Sukhomlin, a double missile attack on an energy facility left Zhytomyr, a military base town 140 km (85 mi) west of the capital, completely without water and electricity. He claimed that the hospitals were still using backup power.

According to officials, the missile strikes also affected an energy facility in Kyiv and seriously damaged another in the city of Dnipro in the country's south. Russia is using missiles as well as using a variety of attack methods.

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According to the regional governor, a facility used for infrastructure in the southern Zaporizhzhya region was partly captured by Russia by suicide drones.

The region's governor reported that one person was killed in an attack on the southern city of Mykolaiv using S-300 air defense missiles, which Russia is reusing as ground attack weapons because its stockpiles are low. are running. The youth's body was found in the rubble of a two-storey building.

Rockets hit an industrial area in Kharkiv city in eastern Ukraine. According to the regional governor, eight rockets were launched from the Russian side from immediate range.

On Monday, waves of suicide drones carrying explosives also struck Kyiv, damaging energy facilities and causing buildings to partially collapse and catch fire. Four people were killed when a drone crashed into a four-storey residential building.

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According to Ukraine, Iran supplies thousands of drones to Russia. Several other countries have recently used Iranian-made Martyr drones, which on Monday hit targets in Kyiv with their explosive charges.

In the past week alone, more than 100 drones have targeted power plants, sewage treatment plants, residential buildings, bridges and other targets in urban areas.

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According to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, since October 10, nearly a third of the country's power plants have been destroyed by Russian attacks, leading to widespread blackouts.
Zelensky thanked the soldiers who prevented the drones from attacking, saying that "every drone destroyed is a life left."