Ukraine live briefing: Kyiv reports drone attack; water contaminated from Kakhovka dam collapse
Ukraine live briefing: Kyiv reports drone attack; water contaminated from Kakhovka dam collapse Displaced residents at an aid distribution center this month in Kherson, Ukraine. A dam collapse caused massive flooding. (Heidi Levine for The Washington Post)
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Ukraine’s armed forces said they shot down dozens of drones, most of them targeting the capital Kyiv in a fresh round of overnight attacks on the country. The mayor of Lviv also said that despite a drone attack in the western city near the Polish border, there were no initial reports of casualties.
In eastern Ukraine, residents are still grappling with water contamination and hundreds of flooded homes nearly two weeks after the collapse of the Kakhovka dam, which killed dozens and displaced thousands.
Here’s the latest on the war and its ripple effects across the globe.
Key developments
Air defense systems took down 32 of 35 drones after Russian forces launched “another massive air and missile attack" early Tuesday, the Ukrainian military’s general staff said. Kyiv’s military administration said air raid sirens blared for at least three hours but that there were no reports of major damage.
Lviv’s mayor, Andriy Sadovyi, said the drone attack hit infrastructure in the city but but that public transportation facilities have been restored. Ukrainian officials said the region of Zaporizhzhia in the southeast was also shaken by an attack early Tuesday.
There is “significant” water contamination in areas affected by the dam collapse , according to the Ukrainian Health Ministry. There are reports of salmonella, rotavirus and E. coli, among other contaminants, and people are prohibited from swimming or fishing in the Odessa, Kherson and Mykolaiv regions, it said.
Thousands of people are cut off from water supplies in the Dnipropetrovsk region, and more than 800 houses remain flooded as a result of the dam collapse, the Ukrainian , and more than 800 houses remain flooded as a result of the dam collapse, the Ukrainian Interior Ministry said. “There is still a lot of work to do,” it said on Telegram. Restoring housing after the dam collapse could cost $60 billion to $70 billion, Ivan Pereghinets, director of the Scientific and Technical Center of the Academy of Construction of Ukraine, told local media
Global impact
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is expected to meet with German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius on Tuesday at Schleswig-Jagel Air Base in Germany, one of the bases hosting Air Defender 23, the largest air deployment exercise in NATO history. The exercise is meant to send “a clear message that NATO is ready to defend every inch of Allied territory,” on Tuesdayat Schleswig-Jagel Air Base in Germany, one of the baseshosting Air Defender 23, the largest air deployment exercise in NATO history.The exercise is meant to send “a clear message that NATO is ready to defend every inch of Allied territory,” said NATO spokeswoman Oana Lungescu.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak by phone as London prepares to host the Ukraine Recovery Conference on Wednesday and Thursday. The conference will focus on “mobilizing international support for Ukraine’s economic and social stabilization and recovery from the effects of war,” on Wednesday and Thursday. The conference will focus on “mobilizing international support for Ukraine’s economic and social stabilization and recovery from the effects of war,” according to its website
China reassured the United States and other governments that it has not provided and will not provide lethal assistance to Russia for use in the war on Ukraine, for use in the war on Ukraine, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday in Beijing. “We have not seen any evidence that contradicts that,” he said, though he expressed concern that Chinese companies may be providing technology that Russia can use to advance its position in the war.
From our correspondents
Navalny’s new trial on ‘extremism’ is held in secret, in a prison: Russia’s most prominent opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, was put on trial Monday on extremism charges that could result in extending his existing prison sentences by decades, Robyn Dixon reports.
“The proceedings swiftly turned Kafkaesque,” she writes. “The trial was held in an unidentified room in the bowels of Penal Colony Number 6 in the Vladimir region, from which media and even Navalny’s parents were barred. … After just 86 minutes of arguments, the video abruptly switched off without explanation.”
Source: The Washington Post
