Wednesday 19 October 2022 12:37 AM Vladimir Putin's blitz plunges Ukraine into darkness trends now
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Ukraine's energy supplies are at critical lows after Russian strikes, Kyiv warned last night.
A missile and drone blitz has knocked out a third of the country’s power stations in just eight days as winter approaches, President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
Further drone attacks on energy supplies left parts of the capital without electricity for several hours yesterday. At least three residents were killed.
Officials said 1,162 towns or villages across 16 Ukrainian regions were now without power.
Mr Zelensky said Vladimir Putin’s targeting of power supplies, a crime under the laws of armed conflict, was ‘causing massive blackouts’ with hospitals forced on to back-up generators.
Further drone attacks on energy supplies left parts of the capital without electricity for several hours yesterday. At least three residents were killed
‘No space left for negotiations with Putin’s regime,’ Mr Zelensky said, once again ruling out the prospect of peace talks with the Kremlin despot. ‘The terrorist state will not change anything for itself with such actions,’ he added.
‘It will only confirm its destructive and murderous essence, for which it will certainly be held to account.’
The main power station in the central city of Dnipro, the gateway to Ukraine’s partially occupied industrial heartland of the Donbas, was also hit. And Zhytomyr, home to military bases and key industries west of Kyiv, was left without energy.
