“Kovalenko urged Kyiv residents not to turn on all electrical appliances immediately after the light appears, in order to avoid new accidents and delays in network repairs”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
According to the mayor of Kyiv, the situation with heat and water supply on the left bank and in the Pechersk district remains “difficult”.
Regarding electricity, according to Klitschko, NEC “Ukrenergo” introduced emergency shutdowns in the capital. Utilities and energy companies are working to restore damaged critical infrastructure facilities.
At the same time, the CEO of Yasno, Serhiy Kovalenko, confirmed that emergency power outages without schedules continue in Kyiv. After the shelling, in addition to emergency shutdowns, 173,000 customers were left without power.
“Currently, about half of the city’s housing stock is without heating. They also record water supply interruptions on the left bank,” he said.
Kovalenko urged Kyiv residents not to turn on all electrical appliances immediately after the light appears, in order to avoid new accidents and delays in network repairs.
Russian troops launched a massive attack on Ukraine at night. According to the Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, on the night of January 20, the Russian military attacked Ukraine with one Zircon anti-ship missile, 18 ballistic and 15 cruise missiles, as well as 339 attack UAVs, about 250 of which were Shahedi. The main direction of the attack is Kyiv region.
As the local authorities reported, a person was injured in Kyiv due to the Russian attack, and there are interruptions in electricity and water supply on the left bank. After another attack by the Russian Federation, 5,635 high-rise buildings in Kyiv were left without heat, almost 80 percent of them are houses where the heat supply was restored after the shelling on January 9.
In Vinnytsia, a night Russian attack hit a critical infrastructure facility. The local authorities of Odesa also reported damage to the power plant. An attack on an industrial facility was announced in Poltava Oblast.
The Russian military regularly attacks Ukrainian regions with various types of weapons – attack UAVs, rockets, anti-aircraft missiles, and anti-aircraft missiles.
The leadership of Russia denies that the Russian army during a full-scale war inflicts targeted strikes on the civilian infrastructure of the cities and villages of Ukraine, killing the civilian population and destroying hospitals, schools, kindergartens, energy and water supply facilities.
The Ukrainian authorities and international organizations qualify these strikes as war crimes of the Russian Federation and emphasize that they are purposeful in nature.