Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Russia of “energy terrorism” after Moscow’s repeated attacks on key infrastructure knocked out hundreds of thousands of people.
About 450,000 households across Kyiv were without electricity on Friday as blackouts continued across the country, according to the city’s mayor, Vitalii Klitschko. “It’s one and a half times more than the last few days,” Klitschko told Telegram.
It follows dire warnings of a cold and difficult winter ahead for those living in the country after weeks of Russian airstrikes and rocket attacks on Ukraine’s power grid.
This week alone, attacks on critical infrastructure in the regions of Kyiv, Cherkasy, Kirovkhrad, Kharkiv and Zaporizhia have left millions without power and water at times. As of Thursday afternoon, about 4.5 million consumers were temporarily disconnected from power as part of emergency and stabilization programs, according to Zelensky.
“The very fact that Russia has resorted to terror against the energy sector shows the weakness of the enemy. They cannot defeat Ukraine on the battlefield, and therefore they are trying to break our people in this way,” Zelensky said during his night speech.
Repeated Russian airstrikes have dragged cities in central and western Ukraine back into the war zone, leaving residents of the capital scrambling to keep businesses running, along with water and other resources.
Ukraine’s national electricity utility, Ukrenergo, said earlier this week that several areas would face widespread power outages as they try to repair damage caused by recent strikes.
The G7 group of rich nations will coordinate their support for Ukraine as winter approaches in the conflict-torn country, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on Thursday, ahead of a meeting of the group’s foreign ministers in the city of Muenster West Germany.
“We will not allow the brutality of war to lead to the death of many elderly people, children, teenagers and families to die of hunger or cold in the coming winter months because of the brutal tactics of the Russian president,” Baerbock said. reporter.
The Ukrainian military says Russian forces have meanwhile stepped up airstrikes near the eastern front, using multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS), especially in the Donetsk region.
The army’s General Staff said 80 such attacks were recorded on Wednesday, while on Thursday “the enemy carried out four missiles and 28 airstrikes and fired more than 45 times from the MLRS”.
Valerii Zaluzhnyi, commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s armed forces, said that during a conversation on Thursday with General Christopher Cavoli, Supreme Allied Commander Europe, he noted that “the enemy tripled the intensity of hostilities in some areas of the front – up to 80 attacks daily.”
Russian forces and “collaborators” also began a census in the town of Enerhodar, which is next to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, according to Ukrainian officials.
Dmytro Orlov, the displaced mayor of Enerhodar, said that “they are doing it in their usual way, by force, since one cannot refuse participation in the ‘census.’
“For the second day, the Russians together with collaborators of the so-called police are doing door-to-door tours and stopping people in the yards. This was reported by local residents who had to take part in the “census”, Orlov claimed.
“In many cases the inventory ends up with a browsing and browsing of mobile phone applications. Please be careful!” he said. The city’s pre-war population was about 50,000. It has been under Russian occupation since early March.
The state company that runs the nuclear plant, Energoatom, said on Thursday that further Russian shelling about 50km from the plant had disabled two high-voltage transmission lines and that the plant had gone into “full blackout mode”. All 20 diesel generators have started working.” The plant is run by Ukrainian technicians, but is under the control of the Russian state company Rusatom.
title: “Ukraine Zelensky Accuses Russia Of Energy Terrorism As Russian Strikes Knock Out Power For Millions "
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date: “2022-12-05”
author: “Gladys Reinsch”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Russia of “energy terrorism” after Moscow’s repeated attacks on key infrastructure knocked out hundreds of thousands of people.
About 450,000 households across Kyiv were without electricity on Friday as blackouts continued across the country, according to the city’s mayor, Vitalii Klitschko. “It’s one and a half times more than the last few days,” Klitschko told Telegram.
It follows dire warnings of a cold and difficult winter ahead for those living in the country after weeks of Russian airstrikes and rocket attacks on Ukraine’s power grid.
This week alone, attacks on critical infrastructure in the regions of Kyiv, Cherkasy, Kirovkhrad, Kharkiv and Zaporizhia have left millions without power and water at times. As of Thursday afternoon, about 4.5 million consumers were temporarily disconnected from power as part of emergency and stabilization programs, according to Zelensky.
“The very fact that Russia has resorted to terror against the energy sector shows the weakness of the enemy. They cannot defeat Ukraine on the battlefield, and therefore they are trying to break our people in this way,” Zelensky said during his night speech.
Repeated Russian airstrikes have dragged cities in central and western Ukraine back into the war zone, leaving residents of the capital scrambling to keep businesses running, along with water and other resources.
Ukraine’s national electricity utility, Ukrenergo, said earlier this week that several areas would face widespread power outages as they try to repair damage caused by recent strikes.
The G7 group of rich nations will coordinate their support for Ukraine as winter approaches in the conflict-torn country, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on Thursday, ahead of a meeting of the group’s foreign ministers in the city of Muenster West Germany.
“We will not allow the brutality of war to lead to the death of many elderly people, children, teenagers and families to die of hunger or cold in the coming winter months because of the brutal tactics of the Russian president,” Baerbock said. reporter.
The Ukrainian military says Russian forces have meanwhile stepped up airstrikes near the eastern front, using multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS), especially in the Donetsk region.
The army’s General Staff said 80 such attacks were recorded on Wednesday, while on Thursday “the enemy carried out four missiles and 28 airstrikes and fired more than 45 times from the MLRS”.
Valerii Zaluzhnyi, commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s armed forces, said that during a conversation on Thursday with General Christopher Cavoli, Supreme Allied Commander Europe, he noted that “the enemy tripled the intensity of hostilities in some areas of the front – up to 80 attacks daily.”
Russian forces and “collaborators” also began a census in the town of Enerhodar, which is next to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, according to Ukrainian officials.
Dmytro Orlov, the displaced mayor of Enerhodar, said that “they are doing it in their usual way, by force, since one cannot refuse participation in the ‘census.’
“For the second day, the Russians together with collaborators of the so-called police are doing door-to-door tours and stopping people in the yards. This was reported by local residents who had to take part in the “census”, Orlov claimed.
“In many cases the inventory ends up with a browsing and browsing of mobile phone applications. Please be careful!” he said. The city’s pre-war population was about 50,000. It has been under Russian occupation since early March.
The state company that runs the nuclear plant, Energoatom, said on Thursday that further Russian shelling about 50km from the plant had disabled two high-voltage transmission lines and that the plant had gone into “full blackout mode”. All 20 diesel generators have started working.” The plant is run by Ukrainian technicians, but is under the control of the Russian state company Rusatom.
