Russian forces fired a new round of missiles into Ukraine on Monday, stepping up attacks in the country’s central and southeastern regions.
“We see that strategic bombers have taken off and the first wave of missiles has already been fired,” said Yuriy Ikhnat, a spokesman for the Ukrainian Air Force, adding that there could be many more attacks.
The deadly strikes killed at least one person in the Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih and at least two people in Zaporizhzhia, according to local authorities.
Air defense systems in the capital, Kyiv, are also “working” due to “missile movement into the area,” according to military official Oleksii Kuleba.
The shelling cut off access to water and electricity in Kryvyi Rih and the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa, amid shortages across the country following recent Russian attacks targeting critical infrastructure.
The water company Infoksvodokanal said that in Odessa, “all pumping stations and backup lines are without power – so consumers have no water.”
“Part of the city is without electricity, some boiler houses and pumping stations are turned off,” said Oleksandr Vilkul, a military official in Kryvyi Rih.
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