Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said his country is enduring emergency power cuts Thursday night after more Russian missile attacks, just as temperatures fall to freezing and below.
In his daily video message, Zelensky said crews are doing everything to normalize supply, but there were “emergency power cuts again in addition to the planned stabilization ones.”
“As of now, more than 10 million Ukrainians are without electricity,” he said — the same number as on Tuesday night after a barrage of missile attacks.
Most of the outages are in Vinnytsia, Odesa, Sumy and Kyiv regions, the president said.
Yasno, a power supplier in Kyiv, said the city had experienced emergency blackouts all day, with the grid having less than half of its normal supply. It said power engineers were trying to stabilize the system to avoid even greater damage.
Zelensky said dozens of people were wounded as a result of a missile strike in Dnipro. In Zaporizhzhia, seven bodies had been recovered from the debris of a residential building destroyed by Russian shelling, he said.
“Again and again, we repeat to our partners that only full protection of Ukrainian skies will save both Ukraine and Europe from many possible escalations of Russian aggression and will definitely encourage Russia to truly end the war,” Zelensky said as Ukraine endures waves of missile strikes.
Zelensky also welcomed the renewal for four months of the Black Sea grain export accord and the verdict at the MH17 trial in the Netherlands.
