Electricity restored in Kherson region

KREMLIN-INSTALLED authorities in Ukraine’s southern region of Kherson said yesterday that power had been fully restored to its main city, after blaming Kyiv for attacks that disrupted water and electricity supplies.

Kherson city was the first urban hub to be captured by Russia after Moscow announced its “special military operation” in February and it has suffered outages after strikes on Sunday for which Moscow and Kyiv have traded blame.

“There is electricity, despite sabotage and attacks,” Kirill Stremousov, the Russian-appointed deputy head of the Kherson region, said on social media yesterday.

Ukraine troops have been pushing closer towards the city in recent months and its capture by Kyiv would be a significant defeat for Moscow.

The news of the outages followed reports from Russian officials that the Kakhovka Dam, also in Kherson, had been damaged by a Ukrainian strike. |