During the day, electricity was repaired for 6 million Ukrainians, there are big problems with water – Zelenskyy
A day after the shelling, electricity was repaired for almost 6 million Ukrainians, but major problems with water supply remain. Source: The evening address of Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the President of Ukraine "During the day, it was possible to restore the electricity supply to almost 6 million Ukrainians.
Repair work is ongoing now and has been going on non-stop since yesterday's terrorist attack. Of course, there is still a lot of work to do to stabilise the system. Problems with the supply of heat, big problems with the supply of water exist.
The most difficult situation is in the city of Kyiv and the region, Vinnytsia and the region, Lviv and the region. But there are, unfortunately, large-scale outages in many other regions: they include Dnipro and Dnipropetrovsk region, Volyn, Zhytomyr region, Zakarpattia, Ivano-Frankivsk region, the city of Odesa and the region, Poltava region, Ternopil region, Chernihiv region and other cities and regions.
Details: The President appealed to international partners to provide Ukraine with a reliable air defence shield. "Find an opportunity to give Ukraine reliable protection of the sky, a reliable air defence shield.
You can do it. You can give protection to our people - one hundred percent protection from these terrorist Russian strikes. When this happens, the main form of Russian terror - missile terror - will become simply impossible.
And this will mean safety for Ukrainians, safety for millions of people and a strategic realignment of the entire military situation. The fewer opportunities Russia has for terror, the more opportunities we will have to restore and guarantee peace."
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Background:
- On 16 December, the Russians launched a massive missile attack on the civilian infrastructure of Ukraine.
The occupiers fired 70 cruise missiles and 4 guided air missiles, 60 cruise missiles were shot down by air defence forces.
- As a result of the strikes, several energy infrastructure facilities and residential buildings were damaged in Zhytomyr, Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, and Zaporizhzhia oblasts.
- In particular, in Kyiv, after the attack, the subway did not work, there were electricity, water and heat supply outages.
On Saturday morning, the Kyiv metro resumed operation and water supply was repaired to Kyiv residents.
However, a third of Kyiv residents remained without electricity.
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