Kyiv under Russian missile attack
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Ukraine's capital Kyiv, home to over 3 million people, has rarely been prepared for winter. Frozen, icy sidewalks, bursting pipes, and year-long infrastructure collapse have been a key feature of the city under Mayor Vitali Klitschko.
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Kyiv hit amid freezing cold - aftermath of Russia's strike on capital
Russia attacked Kyiv with drones and missiles on the night of February 3. The strike on the capital coincided once again with a period of severe cold in Ukraine. RBC-Ukraine has compiled everything known so far about the consequences of the night attack on Kyiv.
The large-scale outage also affected the neighboring country. Part of the settlements of Moldova remained without power supply. We are talking at least about Chisinau and its suburbs (Stavcheni, Durlesti, Vatra), as well as Taraclia, Cahul and Novi Aneni.
Ukraine's capital is currently facing "the most difficult" winter of the war as its energy infrastructure sustained detrimental damage and continues to undergo further Russian attacks. Over the past weeks,
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Russian strikes left much of Kyiv without heat, water and power during freezing temperature, even as Ukraine, Russia and the U.S. held talks on ending the nearly four-year war.
The Kyiv City Military Administration (KCMA) has officially denied the information that appeared in the media about the alleged mass departure of 600,000
Mass heating outages caused by Russian strikes on Kyiv are set to last into the weekend, as the capital's mayor called on residents to temporarily leave the city with sub-zero temperatures expected to fall even lower. A massive missile and drone attack on ...
President Zelensky says Russia has started using "far more" ballistic missiles in its attacks on Ukraine.
"Whether there are strikes or not, hundreds of buildings in Kyiv are still without heating. This means that the work being done in the city is not enough."