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Local authorities in Kharkiv, in eastern Ukraine, said Friday that the city’s water and electricity supplies have been fully restored after attacks by Russian forces this week.
The city’s mayor, Igor Terekhov, warned that although supplies had resumed, the municipality still registers some adversities to fully guarantee the supply, mainly electricity.
The mayor recalled that local authorities installed spaces for charging mobile devices and others for the purchase of hot drinks and food at different points on public roads, according to the local news agency Ukrinform.
Russian forces launched a new wave of attacks on badly damaged Ukrainian energy infrastructure on Wednesday.
The Ukrainian authorities estimate that About 50% of Ukraine’s electrical installations were damaged in recent attacks.???????? In kyiv, almost half of the inhabitants remained this Friday without electricity and two thirds without heating, at a time when negative temperatures reach the region, warned the mayor of the Ukrainian capital, Vitaly Klitschko.
The chairman of the board of directors of the state power company Ukrenergo, Volodymyr Kudrytsky, said that the Ukrainian energy system has now passed “the most difficult phase” after the attack.
Electricity is partially restored and “the energy system is once again connected to the energy system of the European Union,” he explained.
Moscow’s strategy of bombing energy facilities, followed since October in a context of military withdrawals, is considered a “war crime” by Ukraine’s Western allies and described as a “crime against humanity” by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Russia, for its part, says it is only targeting military infrastructure. and attributes the power outages to the firing of Ukrainian air defenses????????
Source: Observadora
