Russia and Ukraine are due to take part in US-brokered talks<\/a>, explosions rocked Kyiv as Moscow unleashed waves of ballistic missiles, several of which hit and damaged the Northern Bridge across the Dnipro River, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said.<\/p>\nStrikes on energy facilities outside Kyiv, including systems sending power from two nuclear plants to the city and Ukraine’s central regions, caused serious damage, the energy ministry said.<\/p>\n
“The capital is facing serious difficulties with its electricity, water, and heat supplies,” President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on X, adding that substations in five other regions were also hit.<\/p>\n
He said only four of the 36 ballistic-type missiles launched by Russia had been intercepted, and that some were North Korean-made and hit an important energy facility.<\/p>\n
At least two people were killed and around a dozen others wounded across Ukraine in the overnight attacks, which also damaged homes, businesses and non-residential buildings, authorities said.<\/p>\n
Moscow’s defence ministry said it struck what it described as targets in Ukraine’s military-industrial sector, as well as energy and transport infrastructure in and around Kyiv.<\/p>\n
Ukraine also carried out drone and missile attacks on several Russian regions, causing minor damage but no casualties, Russian authorities said on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KYIV: Russian forces hammered energy infrastructure around Ukraine’s capital with missiles and drones overnight, straining Kyiv’s power supply…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2236,169,35,2452,170],"class_list":["post-72688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ukraine-russia","tag-energy-infrastructure","tag-missile-attacks","tag-russia","tag-russia-missile-attacks","tag-russia-ukraine-war"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@conflicts\/117577199990517633","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/conflicts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/conflicts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/conflicts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/conflicts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/conflicts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/conflicts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/conflicts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/conflicts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/conflicts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/conflicts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}