“A total electricity saving mode has been implemented in the region so that hospitals, transportation and other important social infrastructure can function,” he added, urging residents to “save electricity.”
The same was denounced by the authorities of the province of Lviv, in the west of the territory, who spoke of at least three Russian missiles that hit energy infrastructures and left almost a third of the homonymous capital without electricity.
Meanwhile, air warning sirens sounded again yesterday throughout Ukraine and the death toll from yesterday’s Russian bombing rose to 19, five more than the number officially confirmed until last night, local media said.
After an explosion partially destroyed the strategic Crimean bridge on Saturday, Vladimir Putin’s government yesterday launched an intense wave of long-range missile attacks that fell on various cities in Ukraine, including the capital, kyiv. Putin accused the Ukrainian secret services of having caused the powerful explosion and called the incident a “terrorist act”.
Although the Ukrainian armed forces said that the remote attacks are a “sign of fragility” of Russia, in the context of a setback suffered by its troops on the battlefield in the last two months, the truth is that the missiles of The last few hours have plunged entire cities in Ukraine into a severe shortage of water and electricity.
More than 300 towns were still without electricity throughout the country yesterday because of the attacks, which reached power plants.
Consequently, the Ukrainian Ministry of Energy announced yesterday that the country will temporarily stop exporting electricity from the country in order to “stabilize its own energy system”.
Faced with this situation, Zelensky urged the Western powers allied with his country to build an “anti-aircraft shield”.
Participating in a virtual G7 summit, the president indicated that “millions of people will be grateful” for such help, and warned that the Kremlin still has “means to intensify its offensive.”
The United States promised to increase shipments of anti-aircraft defenses to Ukraine and Germany announced that it will deliver “in the next few days” a first set of Iris-T anti-aircraft missiles, capable of protecting an entire city.
The G7 leaders also warned Belarus that its plan to deploy joint troops with Russia constitutes a new form of “complicity” with Russia’s February invasion.
The G7 (USA, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, UK and Japan) added that they will do everything they can to hold “Putin and those responsible accountable” for the latest bombings.
The new attacks represent a “sign of weakness”, since the Russian troops are being defeated, reiterated yesterday the secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the Norwegian Jens Stoltenberg.
Meanwhile, in Saint Petersburg, Putin yesterday received the director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the Argentine Rafael Grossi, whom he told him to be “open to dialogue” about the situation at the Ukrainian nuclear plant in Zaporizhia. , controlled by Russian forces since March.
Source: Ambito
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