Russia on Monday launched massive missile strikes across Ukraine, including the capital Kiev, causing power and water outages, according to officials in the war-torn country.<\/p>\n
At least two blasts were reported in Kiev, while strikes also hit the central Vinnytsia region, as well as Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia in the south-east, and Lviv in the west, the BBC reported citing the officials as saying.<\/p>\n
In the north-eastern city of Kharkiv, critical infrastructure facilities were hit, the local authorities said.<\/p>\n
The strikes come after Russia blamed Ukraine for a drone attack on its Black Sea Fleet in the annexed Crimea.<\/p>\n
Ukraine’s Air Force spokesman Yuriy Ihnat told local media that Russia had used its strategic bombers to carry out the attack.<\/p>\n
Andriy Yerkmak, the head of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s office, said that “Russian losers are continuing to fight against peaceful objects”, the BBC reported.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, one Russian warship was damaged in the port city of Sevastopol in a drone attack, the Russian Defence Ministry said.<\/p>\n
It also accused British specialists of having trained the Ukrainian soldiers who then carried out the strikes in Crimea, Ukraine’s southern peninsula, annexed by Russia in 2014.<\/p>\n
Moscow however, provided no evidence to back its claims.<\/p>\n
Ukraine has not commented on the issue, while the UK Defence Ministry said Russia was “peddling false claims on an epic scale”.<\/p>\n
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