11 Ukrainians Died, European Union And NATO Hard Districts Russian Missile Attack

Police recorded the victims of the explosion on Kyiv 10 October. (Wikimedia Commons/National Police of Ukraine)

JAKARTA - The European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) strongly condemned Russia's missile attack on Monday, which resulted in casualties and injuries.

Ukraine's State Emergency Service said at least 11 people were killed and 64 injured as a result of Russian missile attacks in a number of areas.

In an upload on Telegram, it is said that four regions do not have electricity after the attack, namely Lviv, Poltava, Sumy and Ternopil, with electricity supply partially disrupted in other parts of the country.

Separately, the European Commission condemned Russian missile attacks in Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities as barbaric acts.

EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said Russia's actions "have no place in the 21st century", adding in a tweet that military support for Ukraine from the bloc was on its way.

Meanwhile, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Russia's attacks on Ukrainian cities on Monday were dire.

"Speaking with Foreign Minister (Ukraine) Dmytro Kuleba and condemned Russia's horrific and blindly attacks on civilian infrastructure in Ukraine," Stoltenberg wrote in a tweet.

"NATO will continue to support Ukrainians who dare to fight the Kremlin's aggression as long as necessary," he said.

As previously reported, Russia fired cruise missiles at cities across Ukraine during peak hours on Monday morning, killing civilians, causing power outages and heat, in what President Vladimir Putin declared in retaliation for Ukraine's attacks, including on bridges to Crimea.

In the middle of the morning, Ukraine's Defense Ministry said Russia had fired 81 cruise missiles, and Ukraine's air defenses had shot down 43 of them. Police said at least five people were killed and 12 injured in Kyiv.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said attacks during peak hours Monday were deliberately carried out to kill people, as well as to cripple Ukraine's power grids.

"They are trying to destroy us and remove us from the face of the earth," President Zelensky said in a Telegram messaging app.