The Ukrainian authorities on Saturday appealed to the population to try to “bear” the power cuts that have come to mark their day to day after the Russian attacks in recent weeks, which significantly damaged the national electricity grid.
“From Monday I will request Oblenergo (an operator) to review the schedules in the region. Most likely there will be four-hour outages,” Vitali Kim, governor of the Mykolaiv region (southern Ukraine), said on Telegram.
According to the governor, longer interruptions will be necessary to decongest the regional electrical system.
“We have to hold on,” he told the region’s inhabitants.
Russia has been massively shelling Ukraine’s power facilities since October, causing extensive damage and causing power outages affecting millions of Ukrainians, who live most of their days in the dark and cold.
On the military front, the fighting is “hard” in the east of the country because “the Russians had time to prepare” for the attacks on Kiev, the governor of the Luhansk region, Serguiï Gaïdaï, told Ukrainian television.
“Ukrainian armed forces are advancing slowly through the [defesa] coast towards Svatové-Kreminna,” he added, without elaborating.
According to a morning bulletin from the Ukrainian army, the situation is “difficult” near Bakhmout, in the Donetsk region, which the Russians have been trying to conquer since the summer, so far without success.
The battle around this city assumed even more symbolic importance for Russian officers, as its conquest would follow a series of humiliating defeats, such as withdrawals from Kharkiv (northeast) in September and from Kherson (south) in November.
The same “difficulties” are faced by kyiv’s troops in the Kherson region (south), from which the Russian army partially withdrew in November, claiming it wanted to consolidate its positions.
“The Russians bombed Kherson [e] damaged electrical networks”, says the report released this morning.
Source: Observadora
