More than a million Ukrainians are left without power in the west of the country after a massive Russian air attack on its neighbor’s civilian energy infrastructure, amid escalating Russian threats against Ukraine and the West .
The head of one of the electricity supply companies, Yasno, Serguiï Kovalenko, indicated on Facebook that there were “emergency cuts throughout the country due to the enemy’s attack”.
According to him, the energy company Ukrenergo expects power cuts until the evening.
The governor of the Lviv region reported shortly before 10 a.m. local time that “523,000 subscribers are without electricity because of the morning strikes”.
Regional authorities in Rivne said that 280,000 people were without running water, and that there were also running water outages.
“All relevant services are working to eliminate the consequences of the attack,” Governor Oleksandr Koval said on Telegram.
In the neighboring Volyn region, 215,000 residents are plunged into darkness, according to the governor.
The western region of Ivano-Frankivsk is also experiencing power outages, as well as that of Khmelnytsky, in central Ukraine, also reported power outages, but did not quantify the population affected.
In the south of the country, the mayor of Mykolaiv, Oleksandr Senkevych, announced that trams and trolleybuses were not running due to the cuts, and schools will remain closed on Thursday.