Russian forces pounds Kyiv with 76 missiles in fresh attack, Ukraine residents struggles with electricity and power

| Dec 17, 2022, 02:19:23 PM | Mirror Now

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Russian forces launched at least 76 missiles across Ukraine. At least two people were killed after a residential building was hit in the central city of Kry-vyi Rih, and a third died in a fire in the southern Kherson. Ukraine was working Saturday to restore electricity to hospitals, heating systems and other critical infrastructure in major cities after Russia's latest wave of attacks on the power grid prompted accusations of "war crimes". The volley of missiles unleashed Friday pitched multiple cities into darkness, cutting water and heat and forcing people to endure freezing cold. In the capital, where the mayor said only a third of residents had heat or water, people wrapped in winter coats crammed into underground metro stations after air raid sirens rang out in the morning. Ukraine's national energy provider said its system had lost more than half its capacity after strikes targeted "backbone networks and generation facilities".