Water and power largely restored in Kiev, other areas see progress
J ST a day after nationwide Russian missile attacks, kraine restored the water supply in its capital Kiev on Thursday while the municipal services seemed to struggle to completely restore crucial electricity supplies.
After the major attacks on krainian infrastructure the day before, the water supply in the capital city of million people had completely collapsed due to power outages.
The district heating system also failed in many parts of the city, along with electricity, internet and mobile phone networks.
On Thursday afternoon, some parts of Kiev were still without power.
The deputy head of the president’s office, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, had an upbeat message. “In fact, all areas of kraine have been supplied with electricity,” Tymoshenko told krainian television on Thursday.
But he did not specify how many krainians actually have electricity again.
At the height of the outages, 0 percent of the capital was without electricity, Mayor Vitali Klitschko wrote on Telegram earlier.
The municipal services have been working at out to repair the damage, but Kiev’s power supply also depends on the stability of the entire energy system in kraine, the mayor said.
The Russian military fired about 0 missiles and drones at kraine on Wednesday, according to Kiev. As in previous attacks, the targets were mainly objects in the energy sector. After the krainian nuclear power plants were shut down as a result of the attacks, there were power cuts across the country.
The neighbouring former Soviet republic of Moldova also continued to be without electricity in the morning. The energy networks of the two countries are closely linked.
The new commander of Russian troops in kraine, General Sergei Surovikin, gained notoriety for attacking civilian targets to weaken his opponents during his deployment in Syria a few years earlier.
After his recent appointment in kraine, attacks on the country’s critical infrastructure have become an important part of Russian warfare in the now nine-month-old armed con ict.
Russia invaded kraine on February 2 and has wreaked havoc and destruction on many places since then. Tens of thousands of people have been killed. An end to the war, which Moscow initially hoped to win quickly, is not in sight.
The Kremlin openly admits that Russian attacks are hitting
krainian civilians hard.