Kyiv: 130,000 citizens remain without electricity at 0 degrees after the Russian bombings

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On Wednesday, Russia targeted Ukraine’s energy infrastructure with dozens of missiles and cruise missiles, causing severe damage.

No electric drift tens of thousands of its inhabitants are still there Kievafter the Russian attacks, according to local authorities.

About 130,000 people in the Ukrainian capital, which has about 3 million inhabitants, continue to face problems, Kiev’s military administration said on Saturday, adding that network repairs were expected to be completed within the next 24 hours.

All heating systems are expected to be able to operate again by then, according to authorities.

On Wednesday, Russia targeted Ukraine’s energy infrastructure with dozens of missiles and cruise missiles, causing severe damage.

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko warned of political unrest due to the power outages and appealed for calm.

“We must continue to work together to defend the country and protect the infrastructure,” he noted, adding that authorities are looking for a solution in “record time.”

The comments came shortly after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky criticized the former boxing champion in an unusually open manner for being slow to restore the electricity grid.

Many other parts of the country were also without electricity, water and heating, raising fears that vital services will not function properly in the colder months ahead.

Also yesterday, at least 13 people were injured after new Russian missile attacks on the industrial city of Dnipro, Ukraine.

“Four of them are in hospital, including a 17-year-old,” Dnipropetrovsk governor Valentin Reznichenko said in a Telegram post.

More victims are expected to be found under the rubble of apartment buildings.

According to Ukrainian authorities, a total of 7 residential buildings were damaged by the attack. A warehouse was also destroyed.

In addition to Dnipro, the small town of Chasif Yar in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine was also hit yesterday. In this city, which is under Ukrainian control, an apartment building was hit and 3 people were injured, according to its military governor Pavlo Kirilenko.

At the same time, yesterday the heads of the governments of Poland and Lithuania reiterated their support for Ukraine’s fight against the Russian invasion in a meeting they had with their Ukrainian counterpart Denis Schmihal in the Ukrainian capital.

“This war can only have one outcome: Either Ukraine will win or all of Europe will lose,” Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said at the meeting in Kyiv, according to Polish news agency PAP.

“Our support to Ukraine must and will continue until their victory and ours,” Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Simonite said in a tweet after the meeting.

The visit by the leaders of the two EU and NATO countries was organized in conjunction with yesterday’s 90th anniversary of the country’s Holodomor, the famine imposed on Ukraine by the Stalinist regime in the 1930s, when millions of Ukrainians starved to death. .

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