More than 6 million homes in Ukraine were affected by power outages on Friday, two days after massive Russian attacks on the country, President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
“Blackouts continue tonight in most regions and in Kyiv. More than six million households in total,” Volodymyr Zelensky said in his daily address.
Kyiv – with some 600,000 homes without electricity in the afternoon – and its region, as well as the provinces of Odessa (south), Lviv, Vinnytsia (west) and Dnipropetrovsk (central-east), are the most affected by the cuts, he said. he added, calling on Ukrainians to save electricity in areas where power has been restored.
Moscow’s strategy of bombing Ukrainian energy facilities, followed since October in the context of military setbacks, is a “war crime” for Ukraine’s Western allies and described as a “crime against humanity” by President Zelensky, who that same day visited Vyshgorod, a city north of Kyiv where strikes left six dead and dozens injured on Wednesday.
Source: BFM TV
