Water supply and metro services restored in Kyiv, but many remain without heat after missile attacks

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Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN) --

Water supply and metro services were restored in Kyiv, Ukraine, but authorities continued to work Saturday to restore heating to all residents of the capital, a day after a bombing raid of Russian missiles to attack the city.

“The water supply has been restored to all residents of the capital.

Half of Kyiv's residents already have heating and we are working to restore it for all residents of the city," the city's mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said in a Telegram post on Saturday.

Klitschko also said electricity had been restored to two-thirds of Kyiv residents.

“Energy supply is now available to two thirds of Kyiv residents.

But emergency power outage times still apply.

Because electricity shortage is important.

Electrical engineers ask to continue saving electricity,” added Klitschko.

People board a crowded bus at a public transport stop in Kyiv during a blackout.

(Credit: Sergei Chuzavkov/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images)

A fresh barrage of Russian missile strikes in Ukraine on Friday morning put the entire country under airstrike alert.

People rushed for cover as explosions rang overhead, with attacks hitting critical infrastructure and knocking out power.

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In Kyiv, Klitschko reported explosions in the Desniansky district of the capital.

CNN crews in Kyiv reported hearing explosions on Friday, as well as seeing and hearing missiles.

They also heard about the air defense systems that work in the Ukrainian capital.

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In the central city of Kryvyi Rih, rescuers pulled the body of an 18-month-old boy from the rubble of an apartment block that was destroyed by a Russian missile on Friday, Valentyn Reznichenko, head of the Dnipropetrovsk regional military administration, said. this Saturday on Telegram.

The boy's parents and a 64-year-old woman also died, according to local officials.

Another 13 people, including four children, were injured, Reznichenko said.

More than 100 people lived in the attacked apartment block, according to Oleksandr Vilkul, head of the military administration of the city of Kryvyi Rih.

They and residents of neighboring houses who were also damaged were being treated in temporary accommodation, he said Friday.

In the northeastern city of Kharkiv, Oleh Syniehubv, head of the regional military administration, said "critical infrastructure facilities" were attacked in the Chuhuiv district on Friday.

Sections of the Ukrainian railway system in Kharkiv, Kirovohrad, Donetsk and the Dnipropetrovsk region were without power after missile attacks, with backup diesel locomotives replacing some services.

Ukraine's energy minister Herman Halushchenko said nine power generating facilities were damaged in Friday's attacks and warned of more emergency blackouts.

Russia's persistent and widespread attacks on Ukraine's power grid have, at least temporarily, left millions of civilians without electricity, heat, water and other critical services in the bitter winter months.

Repeated missile and drone attacks since October, which have damaged or destroyed civilian infrastructure, are part of a Kremlin strategy to terrorize Ukrainians and violate the laws of war, experts say.

CNN's Olga Voitovych reported from Kyiv and Sophie Tanno wrote from London.

CNN's Eliza Macintosh and Amy Cassidy contributed reporting. 

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