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Ukrainian leader says 6 million households without electricity after latest attack as winter arrives

Ukrainian leader says 6 million households without electricity after latest attack as winter arrives

November 26th BBC Report on the situation of the war in Ukraine that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that six million Ukrainian households were without electricity. After being attacked by a large wave of missiles this week

Workers in Donetsk region repair broken power lines on Friday / AFP

Mr Zelensky said last night that electricity had been cut off in most regions so far. and in Kiev The number of affected households has halved since Wednesday 23 November. However, millions of families still lack electricity, running water and heating. as winter comes

Mr. Selensky said Kiev and the surrounding regions were among the hardest hit areas and many Kiev residents were left without electricity for 20-30 hours. Those in the worst affected areas are Odessa in the north, Lviv in the west and Vinnitsia. and the central Dnipropetrovsk region

“If you meet a power outage It doesn’t mean the problem is over, please if you have electricity. That doesn’t mean you can turn on multiple powerful appliances at the same time. This winter we have to endure. This is a cold winter that everyone will remember,” said Mr. Zelensky.

As Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Shmihal said that despite numerous attacks but the basic infrastructure Most of the time, almost the whole country is connected again. This includes many services such as water supply, thermal power plants, hospitals and energy services, but ordinary citizens face planned power outages in all Ukrainian regions.

There is a fear that Russia’s goals to attack Ukrainian infrastructure along with snowfall and sub-zero temperatures. There may be a public health crisis in the country. Ukraine and its Western allies have always said that Russia commits crimes by attacking critical civilian infrastructure. But Russia has denied the allegations.

UKRAINE PRESIDENCY HANDOUT / President Zelensky visited a ‘point of invincibility’ on Friday: special shelters for basic services as power outages bite

Earlier, on Friday, November 25, the governor of the Kherson region said that hospitalized patients were evacuated from the area. Why Russia is constantly bombing Kherson city council officials said 15 residents had died in the city this week. This is a city that Ukrainian forces have just retaken from Russia.

Russian airstrikes came as the UN nuclear agency said Three nuclear power plants on the territory of Ukraine are being reconnected to the power grid. after being forced to close during this week’s attack on the fourth nuclear power plant in the Russian-controlled city of Zaporizhia. Reconnected on Thursday 24th November.

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