Russia-Ukraine war: Kyiv targeted by drones, energy facilities damaged causing power and heating outages – live

Ukraine reports 20 ‘aerial targets’ shot down above Kyiv; mayor Vitali Klitschko says power and heating outages persist across city

As a result of overnight strikes on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, energy infrastructure facilities were damaged, causing power and heating outages, city mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Monday.

As a result of night shelling of the capital, energy infrastructure facilities were damaged. There were emergency power outages in the city. Accordingly, there are de-energised heat supply facilities,” he wrote in an update to early on Monday morning.

It is loud in the region and in the capital: night drone attacks.

Russians launched several waves of [Iranian-made] Shahed drones. Targeting critical infrastructure facilities. Air defence is at work.”