Odessa and Kharkiv are in the dark, Moldova is also affected, Chisinau is left without electricity
A new wave of rocket attacks has invaded the territory of Ukraine, with Russian rockets mainly targeting critical infrastructure, but has not escaped without damaging civilian objects.
All units of the southern Ukrainian nuclear power plant have been shut down. The reason is the destruction of the power grid. Leonid Oliynyk, spokesman for Energoatom, confirmed this in a comment to the media. “Yes. This is due to the destruction of the networks. There is nothing wrong with the station. There is nowhere to supply electricity,” he notes, he writes dnes.dir.bg.
A residential building was hit in Kiev, three were killed and six were injured. Due to the bombing, several Ukrainian regions are completely without electricity.
The Ukrainian capital is partially without electricity, there is no water in all of Kiev, announced the mayor of the city, Vitaly Klitschko. “Kyivvodokanal” specialists are working to restore the water supply as quickly as possible. Please stock up on water just in case,” Klitschko urged.
Odessa was completely without electricity, local administration head Maxim Marchenko said.
Kharkiv, Khmelnytskyi, Mykolaiv and Zaporizhia were also partially without electricity, media reported.
Emergency stops are available in all regions. Emergency power outages across the country will continue, Ukrenergo announced. The company had previously reported that cold weather and freezing rain made repair work difficult.
“Due to the power outage in Kharkiv, all electric transport has been stopped. We are evacuating people from the metro. Additional buses have been withdrawn for ground electric transport routes,” Kharkiv Mayor Terekhov wrote.
“The repair crews together with units of the State Emergency Service will begin repairing the damage soon after the air alert ends. But due to freezing weather and freezing rain in some regions, emergency repairs to missile-damaged structures could take longer”. said Ukrenergo.
Sections in the capital, Dnipro, Mykolaiv, Lviv, Vinnytsia, Sumy and Kharkiv regions are without electricity, Ukrainian Railways said.
Neighboring Moldova is also affected: Chisinau and a number of Moldovan regions have been left without electricity. This was announced by the country’s Deputy Prime Minister Andrey Spinu. This already happened during the previous massive Russian bombing of Ukraine: one of the transmission lines that supplied Moldova with electricity was automatically cut off.
The President of Moldova, Maria Sandu, commented on the power outage in the country. “Russia has left Moldova in the abyss. We cannot trust a regime that leaves us in darkness and cold, that deliberately kills people out of a simple desire to leave other peoples in poverty and humiliation,” he wrote she on Twitter.
