“The stability of our public energy industry depends on it, in every city or district of Ukraine.” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on his people to consume energy “even more conscientiously than before”as Russian forces continue to strike at the country’s energy infrastructure. “The main target of Russian terrorists is energy”, assured Volodymyr Zelensky, Saturday, October 22. Follow our live.
More than a million homes without electricity. According to an adviser to the Ukrainian presidency, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, pMore than a million Ukrainian homes are without electricity after Russian strikes on energy infrastructure in the country. He precised : “672,000 subscribers were disconnected in the Khmelnytskyi region, 188,400 in the Mikolaiv region, 102,000 in the Volyn region, 242,000 in the Cherkasy region, 174,790 in the Rivne region, 61,913 in the of Kirovograd and 10,500 in that of Odessa.”
A call to leave Kherson “immediately”. Pro-Russian authorities in the Kherson region, annexed by Russia, called on Saturday the civilians to leave “immediately” the regional capital, evoking a “tense situation on the front” and “an increased danger of massive bombardments”. Evacuations to the left bank of the Dnieper River, which borders Kherson, have been underway since Wednesday.