600,000 residents in Kyiv Oblast are still without electricity

Heat supply is gradually being restored in Kyiv Oblast after Russian missile attacks, while emergency power outages continue. More than 600,000 people are still without electricity.   Source: Oleksii Kuleba, Head of Kyiv Oblast Military Administration, on air during the national joint 24/7 newscast

Quote from Kuleba: "Kyiv Oblast continues to recover from missile attacks. Unfortunately, at the moment, only half of the consumers in Kyiv Oblast can be supplied with electricity. Accordingly, 50% are now without electricity.

But these are not always the same consumers. Switching [of the power supply - ed.] is underway. People [power engineers - ed.] have been working around the clock for the past two days to restore electricity supply.

We intend to resume the scheduled outages on Tuesday [20 December - ed.]."

Details: The head of the Oblast Military Administration noted that more than 600,000 people are now without electricity. Power engineers are not yet able to return to the schedules that the oblast reached just three days ago. The Bila Tserkva district and the city of Bila Tserkva, as well as the Brovary district and the city of Brovary suffered the most from Russian strikes.

According to Kuleba, the heat supply was restored in Bila Tserkva at 04:00 on 18 December, and electricity supply was restored in Brovary the day before.

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Now the situation is difficult in the Boryspil and Bucha districts (Nemishayevo hromada). There are still emergency power outages. [Hromada is an administrative unit designating a town, village or several villages and their adjacent territories - ed.]

At the same time, there is mobile connection in Kyiv Oblast, according to Kuleba. Background:

• The morning of 16 December started with an air-raid siren sounding throughout Ukraine. Vitalii Kim, Head of Mykolaiv Oblast Military Administration, stated that about 60 missiles were launched.
• Explosions were heard in Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.

  The explosions rang out in three districts of Kyiv: Dniprovskyi, Holosiivskyi and Desnianskyi.

• In the city of Kryvyi Rih, a Russian missile struck a residential building, and three people were killed.
• On 16 December, the occupiers fired 70 cruise missiles and four guided air-launched missiles, with 60 missiles being shot down by Ukrainian air defence forces.

  As a result of the strikes, several energy infrastructure facilities and residential buildings in Zhytomyr, Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts were hit.

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