Ukraine war: More missile strikes, Zelenskyy 'aerial shield' appeal, Russian troops 'exhausted'
Russian cruise missiles rained down on cities across Ukraine on Tuesday, with the country waking up to the wailing of air raid sirens for a second day.
Today's barrage of bombs comes one day after strikes killed at least 19 people in the biggest air raids since the start of the war.
New missile strikes killed at least one person in the southeastern town of Zaporizhzhia, setting off a large fire, the State Emergency Service said. A local official said the missiles hit a school, residential buildings and medical facilities.
Like Monday, the attacks struck both power plants and civilian areas. The mayor of Lviv in western Ukraine says Russian forces have struck an energy facility in the western city. About a third of the city remains without power and there are issues with water supplies.
Mayor Andriy Sadovyi said Tuesday afternoon that “numerous explosions are again heard in Lviv”. It wasn’t immediately clear if there were any casualties. Energy facilities in the Vinnitsya region also took hits.
Ukrainian forces shot down an inbound Russian missile before it reached Kyiv. However, the capital region experienced rolling power outages as a result of the previous day's deadly strikes.
Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said the main targets were energy facilities.
"These are war crimes planned well in advance and aimed at creating unbearable conditions for civilians — Russia’s deliberate strategy since months," he wrote on Twitter.
The governor of the Mykolaiv region, Vitaliy Kim, urged residents to remain in bomb shelters as “there are enough missiles still in the air”. Russia seemed to have changed tactics, he added.
"They launch rockets more than once so that our people can wait and our air defence can work, but at
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