“Please make arrangements in case of a bad scenario so that you can spend time with your friends or acquaintances.” Interrogates on national public television on Sunday November 6, the mayor of kyiv asked residents to prepare for widespread power and water cuts. “We are doing everything to prevent this from happening, but our enemies are doing everything to keep the capital without heat, without electricity and without water”, added Vitali Klitschko. Follow our live.
More power cuts. Of the “additional restrictions” electricity have been introduced in several regions, the national operator Ukrenergo announced on Saturday. These “emergency interruptions” have touched “all categories of consumers” in several regions, including kyiv. According to The New York Timesthe Ukrainian capital is also preparing to evacuate all its inhabitants in the event of a permanent loss of electricity supply.
Iran has delivered drones to Russia. “We provided Russia with a limited number of drones, months before the war in Ukraine”, acknowledged Iranian Foreign Minister. In recent weeks, kyiv and its Western allies have accused Russia of using Iranian-made drones to carry out attacks in Ukraine. Tehran had so far repeatedly denied the claims.
A statue of Lenin returns to Melitopol. It had been unbolted during the 2014 revolution. The Russian occupation authorities announced that they had handed over a statue of Lenin to Melitopol, a city in southeastern Ukraine occupied since the very first days of the Russian offensive. Photos of the Bolshevik leader’s statue have been posted on social media.