The head of the Ukrainian military command of the Kherson region, Yaroslav Yanusevych, said that “the Russian army blew up high-voltage power lines” 1.5 km long in Berislav.
The city of Kherson in southern Ukraine, which remains under Russian military control despite advancing Ukrainian forces, was without electricity and water on Sunday, and the Kakovka dam in the same area was badly damaged after the two strikes that accepted, for which Russians and Ukrainians blame each other.
Vladimir Saldo, the head of the Kherson regional administration, which was installed by Moscow, assured Russian television Rossiya-24 that “electricians have already left to carry out repair work and electricity is expected to be restored today.”
“Following the terrorist attack, organized by the Ukrainian side, three concrete pylons with high-voltage transmission lines were damaged on the Berislav – Kakovka axis,” the occupying administration said earlier on Telegram. “Currently there is neither electricity nor water in the city (of Kherson) and in some districts of the region” annexed by Moscow in late September.
The head of the Ukrainian military command of the Kherson region, Yaroslav Yanusevych, said that “the Russian army blew up high-voltage power lines” 1.5 km long in Berislav. “The occupation forces also destroyed high-voltage lines leading to the city of Kherson,” causing “supply problems” for the city and other municipalities, according to the same source.
It is the first known major power and water outage in Kherson, which is in the hands of the Russian military since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began on February 24.
According to a representative of the emergency services of the Kherson region, cited by Russian news agencies, “more than 10 locations in the region are (currently) without power.”
Kherson, a large Ukrainian city that has been under Russian military occupation since February, has been transformed into a “fortress” by Russian forces against Ukrainian troops who have been approaching for weeks.
Since the start of the conflict, Ukrainian soldiers have very rarely hit civilian energy infrastructure that the Russians have seized in the annexed territories, mostly targeting Russian military supply lines.
Russia, for its part, has destroyed nearly 40 percent of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure in recent weeks, leading to widespread power and water outages in many places, including the capital Kyiv.
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