The Ukrainian cities of Lviv (west) and Kharkiv (northeast) were targeted by Russian bombardments on Tuesday, said the respective mayors, without yet providing data on casualties.
The Russian bombardment of these cities followed that of the Ukrainian capital, kyiv.
“Explosions are heard in Lviv. Stay protected!” urged the mayor of Lviv, Andriï Sadovy, on the digital platform Telegram, specifying that “part of the city is without electricity.”
“Missile attack in the Industrialniï area, in Kharkiv,” said his counterpart from Ukraine’s second city, Igor Terekhov.
Emergency power outages or as a result of shelling are currently occurring in various regions of Ukraine, according to local authorities.
In Lviv, the metro is “standstill”, the mayor said on Telegram, and a part of the city of Kharkiv also suffered power outages, according to the municipality.
“At least” half of the inhabitants of kyiv are without electricity, however, the municipality of the Ukrainian capital indicated.
Voluntary interruptions were put into practice in the Sumi region (northeast), bordering Russia, according to the regional governor, Dmytro Jyvytskiï, to preserve the network.
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 7.8 million to European countries-, according to the most recent data. of the UN, which catalogs this refugee crisis as the worst in Europe since the Second World War (1939-1945).
The Russian invasion – justified by Russian President Vladimir Putin as the need to “denazify” and demilitarize Ukraine for Russia’s security – was condemned by the wider international community, which has responded by sending arms to Ukraine and imposing them on Russia in political and economic sanctions.
The UN presented as confirmed since the beginning of the war, which this Tuesday entered its day 265, 6,557 dead civilians and 10,074 wounded, stressing that these figures are well below the real ones.
Source: TSF
