<div style="text-align: justify; "><b>The authorities in Kyiv say water and power supplies have been restored, a day after a wave of Russian attacks on the Ukrainian capital's infrastructure.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">Announcing the resumption of services, Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko on Tuesday said scheduled partial blackouts would continue, to manage electricity demand.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The latest strikes followed an attack on Russia's Black Sea fleet in Crimea.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">They appear to be part of a strategy to damage Ukraine's infrastructure in the run-up to winter.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Power and water supplies across Ukraine were badly affected after Russia launched dozens of missiles targeting critical facilities on Monday.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Mr Klitschko said at one point, 80% of the capital city had been without water, and hundreds of thousands of homes without electricity.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Queues were seen across the city, with residents desperate to collect water from pumps.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Strikes were also recorded in the second city Kharkiv, Dnipro and Zaporizhzhia in the south-east, central Vinnytsia and in the western Lviv region. However, Ukraine's military said it had shot down 44 cruise missiles.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">But in a post on social media on Tuesday, Mr Klitschko said water supply in Kyiv had been "fully restored" by emergency teams.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Electricity was also restored, he said, adding that planned blackouts would take place "because of the shortage in the energy system".</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As well as the power cuts, people have been urged to use as little power as possible, especially between 06:00 and 11:00 and 17:00 and 23:00. Restaurants, shops and other businesses face restrictions on external lighting.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In his post, Mr Klitschko said that from Wednesday, conventional buses would operate on all trolleybus routes, which run on electricity.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The city would set up 1,000 heating points to help keep residents warm during the winter, he added.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Thirteen people were injured in Monday's attacks nationwide, Ukraine said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Russian President Vladimir Putin said the strikes had been partly in response to a drone attack on its Black Sea fleet in annexed Crimea on Saturday.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Kyiv government says Russia's strikes on its infrastructure are a response to its military defeats as the Ukrainian army takes back territory in a successful counter-offensive.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><b><br></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>In other developments on Tuesday:</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><b><></b>The UN says three more vessels left Ukrainian ports despite a Russian decision to suspend its backing of the Black Sea grain export deal. On Monday, 12 ships sailed from Ukraine</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><b><></b>The Russian-backed administration in the southern region of Kherson says up to 70,000 people are to be "evacuated" from the eastern bank of the River Dnipro, as Ukraine continue its counter-offensive</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><b><></b>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke on the phone to France's Emmanuel Macron and thanked him for helping "restore the destroyed energy infrastructure" BBC</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>