Russian Attacks
Ukraine has warned of a “critical” threat to its power grid as winter approaches, citing President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s claim that repeated Russian bombardments had destroyed one-third of the country’s power facilities.
On Tuesday, Russian forces claimed to have retaken territory from Ukrainian troops in the eastern Kharkiv region, marking Moscow’s first announced capture of a village in the region since being nearly completely pushed out last month.
“The situation is critical across the country right now.” “The entire country must prepare for power, water, and heating outages,” Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy head of Ukraine’s presidential office, told Ukrainian television.
The attacks in the early hours of Tuesday hit Kyiv, Kharkiv in the east, Mykolaiv in the south, and the central regions of Dnipro and Zhytomyr, where hospitals were operating on backup generators, according to officials.
The repeated targeting of energy infrastructure was described by Zelenskyy as “another type of Russian terrorist attack.”
Many towns and cities in the Zhytomyr region west of Kyiv, as well as parts of the city of Dnipro in central Ukraine, were without power, while power was restored to the southern city of Mykolaiv after overnight attacks.
“The city is currently without electricity and water.” “Hospitals are working on backup power,” said Zhytomyr Mayor Sergiy Sukhomlyn in an online statement.
According to the national emergency services, after 10 days of attacks on energy facilities, 1,162 towns and villages in nine regions were left without power, with more than 70 people killed and 290 injured.
