Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko fears a power outage in the city due to damage to the energy system. He urged citizens to stock up and consider temporary housing outside of Kiev.
“We are doing everything we can to make sure it doesn’t come to that. But we want to be honest: our enemies are doing everything they can to make sure that this city is without heating, without electricity, without water supply – in general: that we all die,” Kiev mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Ukrainian television on Saturday night.
Heating rooms and evacuation
According to him, there are currently about three million people living in the city. Among them are 350,000 displaced persons from other parts of the country. Should the district heating system collapse, the city will set up 1,000 heating chambers. According to the New York Times newspaper, the board’s considerations should go so far as to completely evacuate the city in the event of a power outage.
Whole neighborhoods are currently without light for hours. This is to try and stabilize the network. Factories in Kiev have been damaged after Russian missile strikes on Ukraine’s energy supply.
Attacks in other locations
On Sunday, attacks were reported on several cities in southern Ukraine, such as Zaporizhzhya. According to the city council, one person was killed in an attack on a ‘civil infrastructure building’. However, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that it had hit a Ukrainian army ammunition depot.
A nine-year-old girl was injured in Myrowe, the head of the regional parliament wrote on Telegram. In Kherson, the dam of the Kakhovka reservoir is said to have been damaged by Ukrainian shelling. According to Russian information, a Himars missile hit a lock on the dam. But everything is back under control.
Source: Krone
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