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Kyiv’s mayor announced on Saturday morning that the metro network had been restarted and water supplies restored to all residents of the Ukrainian capital, a day after the latest wave of Russian airstrikes on critical infrastructure.
“The city’s metro network is back in service and the water supply has been reconnected to all residents,” Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Saturday morning, a day after the latest wave of air strikes. Russian On the capital’s critical infrastructure Ukrainian.
Ukrainian officials said Russia fired more than 70 missiles on Friday in one of its biggest strikes since the Russian invasion on Feb. 24, prompting an emergency power outage across the country.
Klitschko also said that heat has been restored to half of the city and electricity to two-thirds.
“However, periodic outages are applied in an emergency because the electricity deficit is high,” he wrote on the Telegram app. Klitschko warned of an expected “end of the world” for the Ukrainian capital earlier this month if Russian airstrikes on infrastructure continued, but also said there was no need to evacuate people yet. “We are fighting and doing everything we can to make sure that doesn’t happen,” he told Reuters on Dec. 7.
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