Kiev swears revenge: – “The enemy will be punished for death and pain!”

According to the government, 11 key infrastructure facilities in Kiev and eight regions have been damaged. “Some areas are now cut off from the outside world. You have to be prepared for temporary interruptions in light, water supply and communication,” Prime Minister Denys Schmyhal said via the short message service Telegram.

According to official information from Kiev, Russia has fired a total of 75 rockets at several cities in the country it invaded on Monday. 41 of them were shot down by the Ukrainian air defense, the adviser to the Ukrainian presidential office, Mykhailo Podoliak, said in a video on his channel on the Telegram news service. After numerous defeats in the war against Ukraine, Russia is showing that it is over. “These are the death cramps of an injured animal,” he said.

“Solve the Russian issue by force”
Russia is killing “our people sleeping at home in Zaporizhzhya. They are killing people who are going to work in Dnipro and Kiev,” said President Zelenskyy. Ukraine’s energy infrastructure has been targeted, Zelenskyj emphasized in a video message showing him in front of his presidential office in Kiev. “The second target is the people This timing and these targets were specifically chosen to do as much damage as possible,” he accused the Russian leadership.

Zelenskyi announced a special meeting of the seven leading industrial countries (G7). Zelenskyi adviser Andriy Yermak said the missile strikes were a new signal to the civilized world that the “Russian issue” must be resolved by force.

Air raid sirens were in effect in almost all parts of Ukraine. “A massive rocket attack on the area, there are deaths and injuries,” the military governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region around the industrial city of Dnipr, Valentyn Resnichenko, said on his Telegram channel on Monday. Authorities in Lviv (Lemberg), Khmelnytskyi, Ternopil and Zhytomyr are also reporting effects. According to Mayor Andriy Sadovy, Lviv is now without energy. “Due to the lack of electricity, the operation of the city’s thermal power plant was temporarily suspended,” Sadovyj said on Monday. So there is no hot water.

Officials said four people were killed in a rocket attack in the eastern Ukrainian city of Slavyansk in the Donetsk region. The impact happened in the city center, Mayor Wadym Lyach said. Power went out in several parts of the city.

Moldova reports missile overflights
The Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhya, near Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, was hit by rockets again overnight. “As a result of a rocket attack in the center of Zaporizhzhya, another multi-storey apartment building was destroyed,” the governor of the region, Oleksandr Starukhin, wrote in the Telegram messaging app.

“There are injuries.” According to witnesses, there was also an explosion on Monday morning in the Russian region of Belgorod on the border with Ukraine. A loud bang was heard and the windows shook, an eyewitness said. The neighboring Republic of Moldova also reported missile overflights. The Russian ambassador was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

In Kiev, the city center and the Solomjanskyj district were affected. Air sirens sounded and people sought shelter in bomb shelters as much as possible. Plumes of smoke could be seen above the city. Bombed cars were parked at a traffic intersection. “Kiev’s main streets have been closed by security forces, rescue workers are on duty,” Klitschko wrote. At least five people were killed and twelve injured. “At the time of writing, the deaths of five and the injuries of twelve Kievans have been confirmed,” Interior Ministry adviser Anton Gerashchenko said on his Telegram channel on Monday. A children’s playground was also hit.

The deputy head of the Russian Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, had previously threatened Ukraine with retaliation for the explosions on the Crimean Bridge, which is strategic for Russia. Medvedev said on Sunday: “All reports and conclusions have been made. Russia’s response to this crime can only be the direct destruction of the terrorists.”

Response to “terrorist attacks”
Russian President Vladimir Putin has described Moscow’s rocket attacks on numerous Ukrainian cities as a response to “terrorist attacks” on Russian soil. At the same time, Russian President Kiev threatened an even tougher “reaction” at a National Security Council meeting on Monday if the “Ukrainian attacks” continued.

“If attempted terrorist attacks on our territory continue, Russia’s response will be violent and commensurate with the level of threats,” Putin said at the start of the television session. On Saturday, the Russian-annexed Kerch Bridge to the Crimean Peninsula was badly damaged by a bomb explosion.