Kyiv mayor says only one-third of residents have heat or water after volley of missiles cut power to the capital and 14 regions
Photograph: Felipe Dana/APPhotograph: Felipe Dana/APUkraine was working to restore electricity to hospitals, heating systems and other critical infrastructure in major cities after Russia’s latest wave of attacks on the power grid prompted accusations of “war crimes”.
Ukraine’s national energy provider said its system had lost more than half its capacity after strikes targeted “backbone networks and generation facilities”.Ukrenergo warned the extent of the damage in the north, south and centre of the country meant it could take longer to restore supplies than after previous hits.
“These cruel, inhumane attacks aim to increase human suffering and deprive Ukrainian people,” Josep Borrell said. Oleksandr Starukh, head of the frontline Zaporizhzhia region, home to Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, said his territory had been targeted by more than a dozen Russian missiles. In Ukrainian-held Bakhmut – an eastern city at the centre of the war – some residents received wood stoves distributed by volunteers, AFP journalists said.
In the Russian-controlled region of Luhansk in eastern Ukraine, Moscow-installed officials said shelling from Kyiv’s forces had killed eight and wounded 23.
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