Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko announced that Russian strikes targeted infrastructure facilities in the city this evening, Wednesday, and led to the interruption of water and electricity supplies in the Ukrainian capital.
He said the city had to be prepared for the "worst-case scenario" of widespread power outages at low temperatures, in which case some residents would have to be evacuated, adding: "But we don't want it to come to that."
Klitschko accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of trying to expel the population from Kyiv, by launching attacks on civilian infrastructure.
For its part, the military administration in the Ukrainian capital said that 3 people were killed and 6 wounded in the Russian bombing of Kyiv.
Sirens sounded across the country (Reuters)
TV broadcast interruption
Russian bombing also briefly interrupted television broadcasts, problems with the mobile phone network were noted in the capital, sirens were sounded across the country, and explosions were reported in the Odessa, Mykolaiv, Poltava and Dnipropetrovsk regions.
For his part, the mayor of Lviv in western Ukraine, Andrei Sadovy, said that "the whole city" was suffering from power outages, and warned of the possibility of "problems with the water supply."
And in neighboring Moldova, the authorities said that the Russian bombing of Ukrainian power stations led to the interruption of electricity supplies to half of the country's cities.
Wagner in Bakhmut
In the Bakhmut axis, a field military commander in the Russian Wagner forces said that his forces are fighting battles, which he described as very violent, and making progress in the city axis in eastern Ukraine.
He made it clear - in his statements - that his forces are working to expand the area and length of the battle front with the Ukrainian army around the city.
The pro-Russian Donetsk authorities said that Wagner's forces were participating in tank and rocket launcher attacks on Ukrainian army positions in Bakhmut.
Russian forces and their loyal separatists have been trying to control the strategic city of Bakhmut since last August.
Meanwhile, the Ukrainian General Staff announced that its forces had repulsed 11 advance attempts by Russian forces in Donetsk and Luhansk provinces, in eastern Ukraine.
The Ukrainian Staff Command said that Russian forces bombed the cities and towns of Donetsk and Kharkiv with missiles, and the governor of the Ukrainian province of Donetsk said that a civilian was killed and 8 wounded in Russian bombing that targeted several cities and towns in the province.