Ukraine says power supply being restored after massive Russian attacks

Kyiv:

Ukrainian authorities said on Wednesday that power supplies were gradually being restored in the war-torn country, a day after Russian airstrikes targeted its energy infrastructure.

Some one million Ukrainians were left without power when dozens of Russian missiles struck power stations in the biggest airstrike since the Russian invasion began in February.

Air raid warnings sounded again across the country on Wednesday, raising concerns over new attacks, but in the capital Kyiv the warnings were lifted minutes later.

“Following yesterday’s rocket attacks, I was informed in the morning that most customers have been reconnected,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said on social media.

“Our engineers and rescue workers worked the whole night in various areas,” he said, vowing to “defeat all enemies”.

The deputy head of Zelensky’s office, Kirilo Tymoshenko, noted that energy supplies had been fully restored in eight regions, mostly in western and central Ukraine.

In Kyiv, the head of the city’s military administration, Sergiy Popko, said on a telegram that “thanks to the coordinated work of engineers and employees of all public utilities … power supplies to critical infrastructure facilities have been restored.”

Andrey Sadovy, mayor of the western city of Lviv, also reported that “power has been restored to almost the entire city”.

“There are isolated reports of homes still without electricity. We are working on it,” he said on social media.

On Tuesday, Russian strikes automatically shut down several reactors at two nuclear power plants as Moscow and Kyiv traded blame for attacks near several nuclear plants in Ukraine.

(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)