At the UN on Wednesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky denounced Russia’s attack on the country’s energy infrastructure, calling it a “crime against humanity”.
“With temperatures below freezing, several million people without energy, heat and water, this is clearly a crime against humanity.”said Zelensky, speaking via video to the United Nations Security Council as part of an emergency meeting he had called for.
New Russian strikes in Ukraine have left 30 civilians dead and injured, according to the United Nations, and left millions without electricity, access to water and heating as of Wednesday, while temperatures in some regions are already negative.
A balance sheet by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) indicates that the escalation of the attacks has affected regions such as Lviv, in the west, Zaporijia and Odessa, in the south, and Chernihiv, in the north.
The blackout also affected large parts of the central regions of Vinnytsya and Dnipro, Khmelnitsk further west, Kharkiv and Sumi in the northeast, Mykolaiv in the south and the capital Kiev.
The attacks hit residential buildings in addition to infrastructure in Kiev and in the cities of Chabany and Vyshhorod, on the outskirts of the capital, and authorities confirmed that at least 30 civilians were killed or injured in the three locations.
Source: DN
