New Russian strikes killed five people on Saturday in Ukraine, where authorities were trying to restore power as quickly as possible after massive missile attacks the day before that caused power outages.
The greatest human cost of the new attacks was in the central Dnipropetrovsk region, with four people killed there and 15 others wounded, Ukrainian presidential deputy chief of staff Kyrylo Tymoshenko said.
He added that the shelling on Saturday also left one dead and three wounded in the southern region of Kherson, whose namesake town was retaken more than a month ago by the Ukrainian army.
Its governor, Yaroslav Yanushevich, highlighted for his part that a geriatric center had been attacked in the village of Stepanivka, but without causing fatalities.
“The enemy continues to concentrate its efforts on carrying out offensive actions in the directions of Bakhmout (which the Russians have been trying to seize since last summer, editor’s note) and Avdiivka,” in the eastern Donetsk region, the staff said overnight. of the Ukrainian forces.
The Kremlin for its part announced on Saturday that Vladimir Putin had met the day before with those responsible for the military intervention in Ukraine, asking the commanders what their “proposals” were regarding the continuation of operations.
Still “a lot of work”
“Electricity has been restored to almost six million Ukrainians during the day. The repair work is ongoing and continues without interruption since yesterday’s terrorist attack,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in the evening.
“Of course, there is still a lot of work to do to stabilize the system. There are problems with the heat supply, there are big problems with the water supply. The situation is most difficult in kyiv and in its region, in Vinnytsia (central-western , editor’s note) and in his region, in Lviv (west, editor’s note) and in his region,” he acknowledged.
“75% of the capital’s inhabitants already have heating,” its mayor Vitali Klitschko said shortly before, according to which the circulation of the Kyiv metro, interrupted on Friday so that the population could take refuge there, resumed first thing in the morning the morning. and the water supply has returned.
Electricity has also been restored in Kharkiv (east), Ukraine’s second-largest city, according to regional governor Oleg Sinegoubov.
In Kramatorsk, on the other hand, “the supply of water and heating has stopped,” lamented the mayor of this eastern city in the afternoon.
Some 74 missiles, mostly cruise missiles, were fired by Russia on Friday, 60 of which were shot down by air defense, according to the Ukrainian military.
Source: BFM TV
