Ukraine war: 6 million without power as winter bites - BBC

Ukraine's president says six cardinal Ukrainian households are inactive without power, aft monolithic rocket strikes deed the state this week.

"As of this evening, blackouts proceed successful astir regions and successful Kyiv," Volodymyr Zelensky said successful his nightly address.

The fig of affected households has reduced by fractional since Wednesday, helium added.

But millions person been near without light, h2o oregon vigor arsenic wintertime sets in.

Speaking successful a video address, President Zelensky said the superior and its surrounding portion are among the worst affected by the attacks. He said galore residents successful the metropolis person been without powerfulness "for 20 oregon adjacent 30 hours".

He said different areas among the worst affected are the regions of Odesa, successful the south, Lviv successful the west, arsenic good Vinnytsia and Dnipropetrovsk which are much central.

President Zelensky appealed to everyone to usage appliances which usage vigor sparingly: "If you don't person a powerfulness outage, it doesn't mean the occupation is over. Please, if you person electricity, this does not mean that you tin crook connected respective almighty electrical appliances astatine once."

"We person to endure this winter, a wintertime that everyone volition remember," helium said.

Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said that contempt the attacks, astir each of the country's captious infrastructure has been reconnected - including things specified arsenic h2o utilities, vigor procreation plants, hospitals and exigency services.

But mean radical proceed to look scheduled powerfulness cuts crossed each portion of Ukraine, helium said.

There are fears that Russia's targeting of Ukrainian infrastructure, coupled with snowfall and sub-zero temperatures, could origin a wellness situation successful the country.

Ukraine and its Western allies person repeatedly said that by targeting captious civilian infrastructure Russia is committing warfare crimes - an accusation denied by Moscow.

On Friday, the Kherson determination politician said infirmary patients had been evacuated from the country owed to "constant Russian shelling".

City assembly officials said 15 residents person been killed successful the eastbound metropolis this week - which was precocious recaptured by Ukrainian forces.

The Russian aerial onslaught comes arsenic the UN's atomic bureau said 3 atomic plants connected Ukrainian territory had been reconnected to the grid, aft they were forced to unopen during the attacks this week.

A 4th atomic plant, connected Russian-controlled territory successful Zaporizhzhia, came backmost online connected Thursday.