Emergency Power Cuts Leave 40% Of Kiev's Residents Without Heating - City Mayor

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 09th March, 2023) Emergency power outages left 40% of people living in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev with no heating on Thursday, Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko said.

Air raid alarms went off in various parts of Ukraine on Thursday morning. The country's energy ministry said airstrikes targeted energy infrastructure in seven regions, including the Kiev region.

"After the attack 40% of consumers of the capital city are so far without heating due to emergency blackouts," Klitschko wrote on Telegram.

Emergency blackouts were also enacted in other Ukrainian regions, including Zhytomyr, Odesa and Dnipropetrovsk. Mayor of Zhytomyr Serhii Sukhomlyn said that most of local households were left with no electricity and water supply.

Ukrainian Railways stated that a number of trains are delayed due to power cuts in some parts of the railroad, with delays exceeding one hour in some cases.

Russia began striking Ukrainian infrastructure on October 10, two days after the attack on Russia's Crimean Bridge which Moscow believes was carried out by Ukraine's intelligence services. The strikes are carried out on power, defense industry, military command and communications facilities across Ukraine. Since then, air raid alerts have been issued in Ukrainian regions every day, sometimes throughout the country.