Around 450,000 residents of Ukraine’s capital, Kiev, remain without electricity on Friday due to the latest Russian attacks on energy infrastructure in the country, according to the city’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko, who denounced that this figure is 1.5 times higher than in recent days.
«This morning, 450,000 customers, homes of Kiev residents, are without electricity. It is 1.5 times more than in the previous days,» he said in a message on his Telegram account. «Stabilization outages take place due to overloading of the central node of the country’s power system,» he has explained.
Therefore, he has called on the citizens of Kiev to «save as much energy as possible» and stressed that «the situation is difficult.» The Ukrainian authorities have been carrying out power cuts and rationing in recent days as a result of the latest Russian attacks on infrastructure.
Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky on Thursday expressed confidence that the Russian military’s attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure will soon get a «global response» and denounced Russia’s relentless offensives on such facilities, attacks that have only increased in recent weeks.
«To withstand Russian energy terror and pass this test is our main task at the national level,» said the president, who considered that the very fact that Russia has resorted «to terror against the energy industry,» demonstrates «the weakness of the enemy.»
