Ukraine residents suffered substantial blackouts and water supplies were cut to large parts of Kyiv on Monday after Russia hit missile again on its key infrastructure, reports AFP.
Russia had launched 55 cruise missiles and dozens of other munitions at "civilian targets" across the country, days after Russia blamed Ukraine for drone attacks on its fleet in the Black Sea, said The Ukrainian army's commander in chief, Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, on Telegram.
Presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovich early Tuesday marked the bombardment as one of the most massive shelling of their territory by the Russian army.
But he noted on the same platform that caused by improved air defences, "the destruction is not as critical as it could be".
Though the army said many of the missiles had been shot down, Prime Minister Denys Shmygal claimed the strikes had still caused power cuts in hundreds of areas across seven Ukrainian regions.
Several blasts were also heard in the capital Kyiv.
The city's mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said later on Monday that 40 percent of consumers had been left without water, while 270,000 homes had no electricity.
In the west of Kyiv, an AFP journalist saw more than 100 people with empty plastic bottles and containers waiting to collect water from a park fountain.
Ukrain Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said on Twitter: "Instead of fighting on the battlefield, Russia fights civilians."
Ukraine's battered energy infrastructure would be repaired with equipment from 12 countries, Kuleba said in a separate statement.
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