Tens of thousands of residents of the Ukrainian capital are still without electricity after the Russian attacks, according to local authorities.
About 130,000 people in Kiev, which has about 3 million residents, are still experiencing problems, Kiev's military command said yesterday, Saturday, adding that repairs to the network were expected to be completed within this 24-hour period.
All heating systems are then expected to be able to operate again, according to the authorities.
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On Wednesday, Russia targeted Ukraine's energy infrastructure with dozens of missiles and cruise missiles, causing severe damage.
Kiev Mayor Vitaly Klitschko warned of civil unrest due to the power outages and called for calm.
We must continue to work together to defend the country and protect the infrastructure, he noted, adding that authorities are seeking a solution in record time.
The comments came shortly after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky criticized the former boxing champion in an unusually open manner for being slow to restore the power grid.
Many other parts of the country have been without electricity, water and heating, which has heightened fears that vital services will not function properly in the colder months ahead.
Also yesterday at least 13 people were injured after new Russian missile attacks on the industrial city of Dnipro in Ukraine.
Four of them are in hospital, including a 17-year-old, Dnipropetrovsk regional governor Valentin Reznichenko said in a Telegram post.
More victims are expected to be under the rubble of apartment buildings. According to Ukrainian authorities, a total of 7 residential buildings were damaged by the attack. A warehouse was also destroyed.
In addition to Dnipro, the small town of Chashiv Yar in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine was also hit yesterday. In this town, which is under Ukrainian control, an apartment building was hit and 3 people were injured, according to its military district chief Pavlo Kirilenko.
Meanwhile yesterday the heads of the Polish and Lithuanian governments reiterated their support for Ukraine's struggle against the Russian invasion at a meeting with their Ukrainian counterpart Denis Smichal in the Ukrainian capital.
This war can have only one outcome: either Ukraine will win or all of Europe will lose, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Moraviecki said at the meeting in Kiev, according to the Polish news agency PAP.
Our support for Ukraine must and will continue until their and our victory, Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Simonite noted at the same time in a Twitter post after the meeting.
The visit of the leaders of these two EU and NATO member countries was organized in conjunction with yesterday's 90th anniversary of Golodomor in the country, the famine imposed on Ukraine by the Stalinist regime in the 1930s, when millions of Ukrainians died of starvation.
Source: Proto Thema
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