(Original title: Ukraine suffered another large-scale airstrike: the whole territory went into a state of power outage, the capital Kiev cut off its water supply)
November 24 News from the Associated Finance Press (Editor Niu Zhanlin)On Wednesday (November 23), the Ukrainian power grid company Ukrenergo announced that after a large-scale Russian missile attack, the entire territory of Ukraine has entered a state of blackout. In addition, the mayor of Kiev announced the suspension of water supply in all districts of Kiev.
Explosions occurred in many places in Ukraine earlier in the day, including the capital Kiev, Lviv and Odessa. The local government has said that many important infrastructures have been attacked and water and electricity supplies have been cut off in some areas.
Kyiv mayor believes Kyiv will face worst winter since WWII Due to water and power outages, many people have to evacuate and need to be prepared for the worst.
Andriy Yermak, head of the Ukrainian president’s office, said attacks on infrastructure continue, but we will persevere, Russia will not crush us. Some officials say Russia hopes to use the dark and cold to strike at the fighting will of the Ukrainian people, but this will only backfire and strengthen Ukraine’s resolve to resist.
Ukraine’s Energy Ministry released a statement saying that the same day’s rocket attack caused the temporary shutdown of all nuclear power plants and most of the thermal and hydroelectric power plants in Ukraine and damage to transmission facilities of energy. The vast majority of customers across the country experienced power outages.
The Ministry of Energy of Ukraine said the power outage could affect heating and water supply and the maintenance department is doing everything possible to restore power as soon as possible, but given the scale of the damage, it may take a long time to restore power.
The National Nuclear Energy Society of Ukraine announced that, due to the load shedding of the Ukrainian energy system that day, the emergency protection systems of the Rovno Nuclear Power Plant, the South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant and the Khmelnytsky were turned on and all generator sets were turned off automatically, the system is powered. But once the network “gets back to normal” they will restore power.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said the Russian attack caused more than $1.9 billion in damage to Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, most of which was destroyed.
Russia fired 70 missiles at Ukraine on Wednesday, 51 of which were intercepted, and five attack drones were shot down, Ukraine’s military said.
Doug Madory, director of internet analytics at network monitoring firm Kentik, said Wednesday’s outage also caused Ukraine’s biggest internet outage in months and affected neighboring Moldova, which is now partially returned to normal.
It came a day after the World Health Organization (WHO) warned that the survival of millions of people was at risk this winter as much of Ukraine’s infrastructure was damaged or destroyed.
