Mayor Vitali Klitschko urges citizens to “think everything,” including a worst-case scenario in which the capital loses power and water, and says individuals may need to stay with “extended family… or friends outside Kyiv, where there is an independent water supply, oven, and heating.”
The mayor of Kyiv has advised citizens to consider leaving the capital city in the event of total darkness.
Vitali Klitschko urged citizens to “consider everything,” even a worst-case scenario in which the capital loses power and water, and stated that he could not rule out the possibility of a total power outage.
“If you have extended family… or friends outside of Kyiv where there is an independent water supply, an oven, and heating, please consider the prospect of staying there for some time,” he advised in a televised interview.
“His mission is to cause us to perish, freeze to death, or flee our land so that he might own it. The enemy wants to accomplish this “He went on to accuse Russian President Vladimir Putin of targeting civilian infrastructure on purpose.
In recent weeks, Russia has focused on attacking Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, resulting in widespread power disruptions.
In his nightly video message, the Ukrainian president stated that the country was prepared for additional Russian strikes and that more than 4.5 million people were currently without power.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated, “The terrorist state is concentrating forces and means for a probable replay of mass attacks on our infrastructure.”
“First and foremost, energy”
President Zelenskyy urged Ukrainians to withstand adversity, stating, “We must endure this winter and emerge in the spring even stronger than we are now.”
On Sunday, portions of Kyiv and the surrounding area experienced rolling blackouts every hour.
Other significant events
• Officials in Ukraine are seeking to identify victims buried in mass graves in Kharkiv;
• The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station has been reconnected to Ukraine’s power grid;
• The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station has been reconnected to Ukraine’s power grid.
Russia is losing military aircraft faster than it can replace them, according to the latest intelligence report from the British Ministry of Defence.
National energy authorities have warned of additional scheduled outages as well as the possibility of additional limitations in Kyiv and the surrounding area.
Rolling blackouts are also scheduled for the Chernihiv, Cherkasy, Zhytomyr, Sumy, Kharkiv, and Poltava districts, according to Ukrenergo, the Ukrainian government’s energy operator.
According to Sergei Kovalenko, CEO of YASNO, a major energy supplier to Kyiv, Ukraine is currently facing a 32% shortfall in expected power supplies.
Mr. Kovalenko stated on his Facebook page, “This is an extreme circumstance.”
As Russia escalates its assaults on the capital, Ukrainian soldiers advance in the south.
According to reports, Russian forces are preparing for a Ukrainian counteroffensive to recapture the southern city of Kherson, which was overrun in the early days of the invasion, and have ordered people to immediately evacuate the city’s right bank.
Nataliya Humeniuk, a spokesperson for Ukraine’s Southern Forces, stated on state television that Russia has been “occupying and evacuating” Kherson at the same time, trying to convince Ukrainians that it is leaving while it is digging in.
“Defense units have dug in very strongly, a certain quantity of equipment has been left behind, and shooting positions have been established,” she stated.
In October, President Putin signed laws integrating four Ukrainian regions after so-called referenda in Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia, which Ukraine and the West denounced as fraudulent.
The territories acquired are not even fully governed by the Russian military.
According to local media, the remaining 15,000 people of the city of Bakhmut in Donetsk are subject to daily shelling and lack access to water and electricity.
“Daily, if not hourly, destruction occurs,” claimed Pavlo Kyrylenko, the Ukrainian governor of the region.
The city has been under attack for months, but in recent days the shelling has intensified.
