Ukraine is dealing with the aftermath of another day of missile attacks,, with power and water supplies still damaged in many locations after critical infrastructure was targeted by Russia.
Air raid sirens sounded out across multiple regions in Ukraine again on Tuesday with the emergency services warning of more Russian strikes.
Those came early in the day, with both Lviv in the west and Zaporizhzhia in the south hit by missile strikes, giving Ukraine’s authorities more logistical challenges to deal with and causing more casualties, a day after Russian attacks left at least 19 people dead and over 100 injured.
Rescuers at work following a missile attack on Zaporizhzhia in southeastern Ukraine on Oct. 11, 2022.
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President Zelenskyy said in his nightly address Tuesday that, were it not for the additional strikes during the day, the Ukrainian authorities would have been able to focus on repairing and restoring water and energy supplies.
“If it wasn’t for today’s strikes, we would have already restored the energy supply, water supply and communications that the terrorists damaged yesterday. And today, Russia will achieve only one additional thing: it will delay our recovery a little,” Zelenskyy said.
Russia’s ramping up of missile strikes comes after it was dealt a blow last weekend when an explosion partially destroyed the Kerch Bridge that links the Russian mainland to Crimea, which Moscow illegally annexed in 2014. On Wednesday, Russia’s security services said it had made arrests in connection to the attack.
Kyiv has not said whether it was responsible for the attack on the bridge, although the blast was widely seen as humiliating for Moscow and President Vladimir Putin.