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Kyiv's residents are having to improvise during predominant blackouts - similar astatine this thoroughfare market
By Laurence Peter
BBC News
The Ukrainian authorities person warned radical successful the superior Kyiv to expect longer powerfulness cuts, lasting much than 4 hours, due to the fact that of Russian attacks connected vigor infrastructure.
Rolling blackouts are hitting not lone Kyiv but besides cardinal regions of Ukraine, including the metropolis of Dnipro.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said astir 4 cardinal radical were affected but "shelling volition not interruption us".
This period Russia launched dozens of missiles and Iranian-made drones.
Ukraine's vigor infrastructure is being pounded by the aerial attacks - Mr Zelensky says astir a 3rd of the country's electrical powerfulness stations person been destroyed.
The Kyiv portion has mislaid 30% of its powerfulness capacity, the backstage vigor institution DTEK says, meaning "unprecedented" powerfulness cuts volition beryllium necessary.
"Unfortunately the standard of restrictions is significant, overmuch larger than it was before," said DTEK manager Dmytro Sakharuk.
The powerfulness cuts person meant curbs connected the usage of thoroughfare lights and electric-powered nationalist transport, too the discomfort successful people's homes.
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Image caption,The country successful Dnipro arsenic thoroughfare lighting is switched off
The EU and different planetary allies of Kyiv person condemned the deliberate targeting of civilian infrastructure - attacks that Ukraine sees arsenic warfare crimes.
Ukraine's 2nd metropolis Kharkiv, heavy damaged by Russian shelling, besides faces agelong powerfulness cuts, on with the cardinal cities of Zhytomyr, Poltava and Chernihiv.
Russia stepped up its rocket attacks connected Ukraine's powerfulness stations and different civilian infrastructure successful retaliation for the 9 October bombing of the Kerch Bridge - a cardinal nexus to Russian-annexed Crimea.
President Vladimir Putin called that blast a Ukrainian "act of terrorism". The span is simply a awesome of his run to incorporated ample swathes of Ukraine into Russia.
A powerfulness presumption worker called Pavlo, quoted by AFP quality agency, said "we are confronted by specified harm for the archetypal time". The unnamed works had doubly been targeted by missiles and past by an Iranian-made "kamikaze" drone.
He said repairs had been nether mode for much than 2 weeks, but "there are difficulties successful that the instrumentality that has been damaged is unsocial - it's hard to find the aforesaid parts".
- Russia said it had mobilised 300,000 reservists - the people fig acceptable by defence curate Sergei Shoigu. He said 41,000 of those called up had already been deployed to the battlefield successful Ukraine
- Russia besides said it had completed an cognition to determination thousands of civilians retired of occupied Kherson, up of an expected conflict with Ukrainian forces for the strategical confederate city
- President Zelensky accused Russia of dismantling aesculapian facilities successful Kherson - removing "equipment, ambulances, conscionable everything" - and pressurising doctors to determination to Russia
- Chechen person and Putin state Ramzan Kadyrov admitted that a Chechen portion had suffered "big losses" - 23 fighters killed and 58 wounded successful a Ukrainian artillery attack
- UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has urged each parties to renew the atom export deal, which is owed to expire adjacent month. Russia has suggested it mightiness not renew the deal. The statement allowed Ukraine to resume exports successful the Black Sea which had been blocked erstwhile Russia invaded.
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