Russian strikes, Ukraine restricts electricity use.
KYIV: As winter approaches and power plants are being destroyed by the Russian army, Ukraine has advised its citizens to dramatically cut back on their electricity use beginning Thursday.
As Kiev accused Moscow of arranging a “mass expulsion” of inhabitants from the seized province of Kherson, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated following a meeting with energy companies that they were prepared “for all potential eventualities with a view to winter.”
As his forces rained down munitions across Ukraine, especially on Kyiv and the country’s west, which had hitherto been spared the brunt of the assault, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced martial law on Wednesday in four areas that the Kremlin recently acquired.
In a speech delivered that night, Zelensky warned that “Russian terror will be focused at energy facilities” and urged the nation to practise energy conservation beginning .
The government was “working on creating mobile power supply points for key infrastructure in cities and villages,” the speaker continued.
The Russian effort to have Kherson evacuated, according to a Ukrainian spokesperson, is “akin to deportation.” Since the first days of the invasion, Moscow has controlled the city.
Sergiy Khlan stated that the goal of Putin was to “create a type of fear in Kherson and an image (to fuel) propaganda,” and that Ukrainian soldiers were still advancing their counteroffensive south.
Exploiting the evacuations as a pretext, he claimed, the Russians were using the Dnieper River to “justify their withdrawal from Kherson and more generally from the right bank.”
Moscow’s action was criticised as criminal by Oleksiy Danilov, secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council.
