Russia does not give up and has launched this Friday several attacks with 60 missiles against basic infrastructure in several Ukrainian cities, including kyivwhich has stayed without water, electricity and metro service. Those attacks have left, at least, two dead and half a dozen wounded and nine Electrical installations have been damaged.
The capital of Ukraine has been attacked early in the morning with several missiles at different points on the left bank of the Dnieper River, which divides kyiv in two. The explosions have affected the neighborhoods of Dniprovskyi and Holosiivskyiwhere there are civil buildings.
Traffic on the kyiv Metro has been suspended on all lines and the Ukrainian authorities have asked the population to go to the underground stations as shelters.
[El impactante vídeo en primera persona de un tanque ruso disparando en una ciudad arrasada]
In addition, the water and electricity supplies have suffered cuts and work is being done to get the infrastructures of these services working again as soon as possible, since kyiv could reach temperatures of up to seven degrees below zero.
Subways in kyiv have ground to a halt. Many subway stations lost power and are now running on emergency generators to provide lighting. pic.twitter.com/tMeW82RyjJ
— Venik (@venik44) December 16, 2022
Attack is Buch, Zaporizhia and Kharkiv
kyiv Governor Oleksi Kuleba has stated that “air defense systems are working in the region.” “The enemy is attacking Ukraine en masse. There is an increase in danger. Stay in the shelters. Do not take photographs or publish them on the Internet,” she claimed.
Russian attacks have not only been directed against kyiv, missiles have also been launched in cities such as bucha and in the region of Zaporizhia, in the southeast of the country, partially controlled by the Russians and where the largest nuclear power plant in Ukraine is located.
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Ukrainian authorities have also confirmed attacks against targets in Krivi Rih, Poltava and Kharkivin which case “critical infrastructure” has been hit.
In Krivoi Rog, in the Dnipropetrovsk region, at least two people died as a result of the fall of a Russian rocket that hit a residential building. There are five injured, including two children, who have been hospitalized.
mobile crematoria
Russia is using again mobile crematorias in some areas of Ukraine due to the large number of casualties that its Army is suffering, as reported by the Ukrainian military command this Friday.
“The Russian occupiers have suffered significant losses in Tokmok, in the Zaporizhia region, so mobile crematoriums are operating in the city,” said the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine-
“Ukrainian Defense Forces destroyed up to 10 units of Russian military equipment of various types in the city of Tokmak in the Zaporizhia region on December 14,” the military command added.
He noted that “about 180 enemy soldiers were wounded. It should also be noted that Russian mobile crematoriums are already operating in the city,” said the General Staff, according to the agency. Ukrainian Pravda, who posts pictures of these vehicles.
The Russian occupiers have suffered significant losses in Tokmok, #Zaporizhzhia Oblast, so mobile crematorium are operating in the…
? https://t.co/be0Tkl8qkQ#Kherson #Luhansk #Tokmak #BBCBreaking #GBnews pic.twitter.com/ODxNyy0AMl— European Media News 24 (@europeanMedia24) December 16, 2022