Russian strikes hit Kyiv power plants, leaving over half a million without electricity

The air alert sounded after the missile or at least the debris from the missile fell in front of this apartment building and that's because as of late the United States seems to be withholding critical intelligence that gives Ukraine's air force the ability to sound the alarm for strikes like these. You can see behind me a crater from where the debris of that missile fell and looking up towards the building the damage that it caused this was one of the largest attacks on Kyiv's infrastructure in the last several months and at least three of its thermal energy plants targeted we spoke with one of the residents of this apartment building we were in our flat and the alert hadn't gone off yet nobody was expecting anything i don't know what prompted it but something just didn't feel right. Somehow I had this feeling and within moments I grabbed my children and rushed them into the corridor. And there was more bad news on Thursday. More than half a million people in Ukraine's capital left without electricity and also now beginning unscheduled blackouts and severe problems with the water supply to the capital here in Kyiv. People here not only looking towards a grim prospect for winter, but also no good news from their allies in the United States. Audrey McAlpine, Al Jazeera, Kyiv.