The Ukrainian authorities called on Saturday on the population to hold out against regular power cuts. population to hold strong in the face of the power outages that now define their daily lives following Russian strikes in recent weeks that have caused major damage to the national power grid.
From [THE DAY AFTER] Monday, I will ask Oblenergo [A PROVIDER] to review the timetables for the region. There will most likely be four-hour outages, the governor of the Mikolayf (south) region, Vitaly Kim, told Telegram.
He described an increased electricity consumption, which he said is expected to make longer outages necessary to ease the regional power grid.
We have to hold firm, he told residents of his region.
Russia has been launching massive bombings of Ukrainian energy facilities since October, causing severe damage and power outages affecting millions of Ukrainians, plunging them into darkness and cold every day.
On the military front, fighting is fierce in the eastern part of the country because the Russians have had time to prepare for Kiev's attacks, the governor of the Luhansk region, Sherhiy Haidai, told Ukrainian television.
Ukrainian armed forces are slowly advancing through Russian defenses in the direction of Svatone-Kremina, he noted, however, without giving further details.
According to a morning Ukrainian army bulletin, the situation is difficult near Bakhmut, in the Donetsk region, which the Russians are trying to conquer without success so far.
As reported by Agence France-Presse, the battle around this city has taken on a more symbolic significance for Russian officials as its capture would come after a series of humiliating defeats, with retreats from Kharkiv (northeast) in September and Kherson (south) in November.
Kiev's troops are facing the same difficulties in the Kherson (south) region, from which the Russian army partially withdrew in November, saying it wants to consolidate its positions.
The Russians bombed Kherson (and) destroyed power grids, one can read in a report released Saturday morning.
Source: CNA
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