More civilian infrastructure destroyed in Ukrainepublished at 10:45 Greenwich Mean Time
Vitaliy Shevchenko
BBC Monitoring’s Russia editor
Image source, DSNS/TelegramA residential block in Kherson was hit by an airstrike
The destruction of civilian infrastructure continues in Ukraine, even though Russia denied targeting it deliberately during the recent talks with the US in Saudi Arabia.
In the southern city of Kherson, part of a residential high-rise collapsed after being hit by a Russian guided missile. The Ukrainian state emergencies service DSNS says people may still be trapped under the rubble, and at some point, it had to suspend search and rescue operations, fearing a repeat Russian attack.
The practice is known as “double-tap” and has been used by Russia to target rescue workers before.
Russian drones also attacked civilian housing outside Kyiv, DSNS says.
Energy minister German Galushchenko says that overnight, Russia attacked Ukraine’s gas infrastructure.
“The purpose of these criminal attacks is to stop the extraction of gas necessary for civilians’ day-to-day needs and for central heating,” he says, external.
Image source, DSNS/TelegramThe emergency services say civilian housing was attacked outside Kyiv