MADRID, 18 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Government of Ukraine has estimated at 20 the number of civilians killed as a result of the Russian bombing carried out throughout Monday on several cities in the country, with the Donetsk region where the lowest casualties occurred.
The deputy head of the Presidency of Ukraine, Kirilo Timoshenko, shared a publication on Telegram on Tuesday in which it is compiled, in addition to the number of people killed in the last 24 hours, that another 22 were injured.
According to this publication, fourteen deaths were confirmed in the Donetsk region -although they include eight from previous offensives-; in Mikolaiv, one; and another five in kyiv, the last of them confirmed this Tuesday by the mayor of the capital, Vitali Klitschko. She is about an elderly woman who was trapped under the rubble of a downtown residential building that was hit by a kamikaze drone.
The wounded have been registered in the Donetsk, Zhitomir, Zaporizhia, Mikolaiv, Járkok, kyiv and Sumy regions, where according to these figures, compiled by local authorities, the five deaths that the previous day, their governor, Dimitro Zivitski noted that they had been confirmed.
Russian forces on Monday intensified their attacks on several Ukrainian regions and cities. In kyiv alone, according to local authorities, up to thirty drones that targeted civilian infrastructure were registered, although only five detonated. The president, Volodimir Zelenski, has pointed out that after this offensive 30 percent of power plants have been destroyed.