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Authorities of Sumy region reported a blow to critical infrastructure

17 October 2022 09:45 (UTC +04:00)

The chairman of the Sumy regional administration, Dmitry Zhivitsky, announced an explosion at a critical infrastructure facility in the Romny district of the region on October 17 in his Telegram channel, APA reports citing TASS.

“In the Romny district of the Sumy region in the morning, there was an explosion at a critical infrastructure facility,” the chairman said.

According to him, as a result of the explosion, there are victims.

Earlier, on October 17, an air alert was announced on the territory of Kyiv. Authorities asked residents to urgently evacuate to shelters. The mayor of the city, Vitaliy Klitschko, also added that explosions were recorded in the Ukrainian capital.

At the same time, the Ukrainian TV channel noted that as of 6:15 (Moscow time) an air raid alert sounds in the Zhytomyr, Vinnitsa, Cherkassy, Kirovograd, Mykolaiv, and Odesa regions of Ukraine.

It is known that a fire broke out at an energy infrastructure facility in the Dnepropetrovsk region.

Massive strikes on Ukraine’s infrastructure facilities have been inflicted since October 10. On that day, explosions occurred in Kyiv and other cities. A number of settlements were left without electricity and water supply. As Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal noted at the time, 11 important infrastructure facilities were damaged on the first day of attacks in eight regions of the country.