On Tuesday (local time), airstrikes disrupted the water and electricity supplies for hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians as part of what the president of the country called an increasing Russian operation to plunge the country into darkness and gloom and thwart peace negotiations.
Nearly one-third of Ukraine’s power plants, according to President Volodymyr Zelensky, were damaged in the previous week, “resulting in major blackouts across the nation.”
“No space left for negotiations with Putin’s regime,” he tweeted.
Depriving people of water, electricity and heat as winter begins to bite and the broadening use of so-called suicide drones that nosedive into targets have opened a new phase in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war.
The attacks appear to be intended to weaken the remarkable resiliency Ukrainians have displayed in the close to eight months since Moscow’s invasion.
Basic utilities are no longer certainties, even far from the front lines, as a result of daily strikes that sometimes cause critical infrastructure to be damaged more quickly than it can be rebuilt throughout the nation.
Zhytomyr, located around 140 kilometres west of Kiev and home to military bases, businesses, and lush boulevards, was the most recent city to lose its power. The mayor said the whole city of 250,000 lost power and also water initially.
Some homes were swiftly connected again following repairs, while 150,000 people continued to lack energy hours after the morning walkout, according to regional authorities.
After a double missile strike on an energy complex on Tuesday (local time), the city hospitals switched to backup power, according to Mayor Serhiy Sukhomlyn.
In the capital of Kyiv, missiles damaged two power facilities and killed two people, city authorities said. According to the facility’s operator, the attack caused 50,000 people to lose electricity for a short period of time.
Missiles also severely damaged an energy facility in the south-central city of Dnipro. The operator couldn’t immediately estimate how many households had lost electricity.
Russia is once more attacking Ukraine’s water and electrical sources.
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