Nearly 100 miners were trapped underground in Kryvyi Rih, the hometown of Ukrainian President Zelensky, after Russian shelling on Monday caused a power outage, according to the Ukrainian news agency Ukrinform, quoted by The Guardian.
According to the same source, rescue teams are trying to free the 98 miners trapped in Kryvyi Rih. In total, after the Russian attacks, nearly 900 were trapped in four mines, but most have since been freed.
On Monday, kyiv, Lviv, Dnipro, Zaporizhia, Sumi, Kharkiv and Jytomyr and many other cities were hit by Russian missiles, leaving more than 300 towns without electricity.
The attacks, which particularly affected Ukraine’s power plants, caused at least 19 deaths and more than 100 injuries.
Russian President Vladimir Putin justified these “massive” bombings by the “terrorist” attack carried out on Saturday by kyiv on the bridge that connects Russian territory with Crimea (south), the Ukrainian peninsula annexed by Moscow in 2014.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmygal said that 11 major infrastructures had been damaged in eight regions apart from the capital.
Ukraine has announced that it will stop exporting electricity to Europe following these attacks, as power cuts are affecting many regions.
The military offensive launched on February 24 by Russia in Ukraine has already caused the flight of more than 13 million people -more than six million internally displaced persons and more than 7.5 million to European countries-, according to the latest data from the UN, which places this refugee crisis as the worst in Europe since the Second World War (1939-1945).
Source: TSF
