Zelenskyy: Russia has destroyed 30 percent of Ukraine’s power stations

Thirty percent of Ukraine's powerfulness stations person been destroyed successful the past week causing "massive blackouts" crossed the country, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday.

Russia connected Tuesday attacked respective vigor facilities crossed Ukraine, including successful the superior Kyiv, amid ongoing attempts to cripple the country's vigor infrastructure.

Zelenskyy called it a "terrorist" onslaught and reiterated that determination is "No abstraction near for negotiations with [Russian President Vladimir] Putin's regime."

Kyiv Mayor Vitaly Klitschko said that a captious infrastructure installation located successful the Desnyansky territory had been hit, portion eyewitnesses besides reported explosions and fume astatine Kyiv's CHP-6 Power Plant Ukraine.

Earlier, Kirill Timoshenko, lawman main of the Ukrainian statesmanlike office, reported "serious damage" astatine different vigor installation successful Dnipro, which helium said has been deed twice. He aboriginal warned residents that shelling mightiness permission immoderate parts of the metropolis without h2o and electricity, adding that exigency unit are moving to reconstruct services.

The harm comes amid a caller question of aerial strikes crossed Ukraine, targeting vigor infrastructure. Outages of energy were reported successful Zhytomyr, Kyiv and Dnipro, wherever energy facilities were hit.

A U.K. defence ministry update connected Tuesday greeting said: "It is highly apt that a cardinal nonsubjective of this onslaught run is to origin wide harm to Ukraine’s vigor organisation network."

The question of Russian aerial strikes hammering Ukrainian captious infrastructure — arsenic good arsenic the civilian colonisation — came successful effect to Ukraine's attack connected the Kerch span earlier this period linking Russian-occupied Crimea with Russia.