Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky denounced Russia’s attack on the country’s energy infrastructure at the UN on Wednesday, calling it a “crime against humanity.”
“With freezing temperatures, several million people without power supply, without heating and without water, this is obviously a crime against humanity,” said Zelensky, who spoke via video before the UN Security Council, in the framework of an emergency meeting that he himself requested.
New Russian attacks in Ukraine caused 30 civilian casualties, including deaths and injuries, and today left millions of people without electricity, access to water and heating, when negative temperatures are already registered in some regions, according to the United Nations.
A balance prepared by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) indicates that the escalation of attacks left regions such as Lviv, in the west, Zaporizhia and Odessa, in the south, and Chernihiv, in the south, completely without electricity. north.
Blackouts are also affecting much of the central Vinnytsya and Dnipro regions, Khmelnitsk further west, Kharkiv and Sumi in the northeast, Mykolaiv in the south and the capital kyiv.
The attacks hit, in addition to infrastructure, residential buildings in kyiv 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 places.
Source: TSF
