Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has accused Russia of engaging in “energy terrorism” after Russia’s energy company Gazprom targeted Ukraine’s energy network.
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More than 4.5 million people lost power across Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky said during a nationwide address Thursday.
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Mayor Vitali Klitschko said about 450,000 apartments in the capital had no electricity on Friday.
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“Dear residents of the capital: save as much electricity as possible, because the situation remains difficult!” the mayor of Madrid tweeted.
Russia has conducted many missile and drone attacks on Ukrainian power facilities, and they’ve been particularly effective lately.
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The commander of the Ukrainian army’s armed forces, Valeriy Zaluzhny, told the BBC on Thursday night that Russian forces had tripled the intensity of hostilities on certain areas of the front, and were carrying out up to 80 attacks a day.
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Governor of the Dnipropetrovsk province Valentyn Reznichenko said on Friday that houses, cars, and a gas pipeline had been damaged in Chervonohryhorivka and that the town was without electricity
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In the east of the Donetsk province, the town of Pokrovsk was the hardest hit by rockets, destroying a school and at least 22 residential buildings, killing one civilian and injuring six others.
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In the southern province of Kherson, which has been occupied and illegally annexed by Russia, the Ukrainian army destroyed two warehouses full of ammunition, hitting their targets and damaging the buildings where the munitions were stored.