Since the beginning of last week, Russia has been attacking the infrastructure of Ukrainian energy suppliers. At times, electricity had to be rationed. Utility Ukrenergo is now reporting: Rocket attacks have hit several power plants. More than a million households are left in the dark.
According to Ukrainian sources, Russia has again attacked the energy supply infrastructure in western Ukraine. Several power plants were hit during the rocket attacks, the utility Ukrenergo reported. Officials in several regions reported power outages. According to the Ukrainian Presidential Office, more than a million households have lost electricity after the attacks. The presidential administration speaks of 1.5 million customers of the energy supplier without electricity.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyj spoke of a "massive attack" in which Russia fired 36 rockets. "The aggressor doesn't stop terrorizing our country." The extent of the damage was "comparable to the consequences of the attacks from October 10th to 12th or could even exceed them," Ukrenergo explained in the online networks.
Zelenskyi's adviser Mykhailo Podoliak said Russia was trying to push Ukrainians into a new mass flight to Europe. "The only way to stop a humanitarian catastrophe is to quickly deliver anti-aircraft systems and additional missiles," Podoliak said. It is feared that because of the cold and darkness and the lack of energy, people will get into even more serious trouble than they already have and will flee.
So far, around 670,000 electricity consumers in the Khmelnytskyi region have been disconnected from the supply, said the deputy head of the Ukrainian Presidential Office, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, in the online networks. He also reported hundreds of thousands of households without electricity from six other regions.
At the beginning of last week, Russia launched a massive attack on cities across the country, primarily targeting the energy supply infrastructure. For the first time in months, the capital Kyiv and the western Ukrainian city of Lviv were hit again. At times, the power supply was rationed. Ukrenergo boss Volodymyr Kudritskyji announced that the Ukrainians had also voluntarily reduced their electricity consumption in some parts of the country and on some days by five to 20 percent.
