Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko said that about 30% of Kyiv’s residents were left without electricity after massive strikes against the city’s infrastructure. Water supply and heat supply systems still work normally.
The capital’s life support system is functioning normally. The people of Kyiv have water and heat. Now 30% of consumers are without electricity. Due to emergency shutdowns, ”he wrote on Telegram.
DTEK warned that emergency cuts were also launched in the Kyiv, Odessa and Dnepropetrovsk regions. According to the company, it is forced to turn off the power supply to “stabilize the power system and prevent equipment failures.”
Sirens and explosions
A nationwide weather alert was issued on 31 December. The siren sounded at 12:22 (13:22 Moscow time) in the Odessa region and at 12:23 (13:23 Moscow time) in the Nikolaev region.
Around 15:00, explosions thundered in Kiev, the authorities urged the people of Kyiv to urgently go to shelters. One of the explosions was heard in the Solomensky district.
According to Mayor Klitschko, one person was killed and 20 injured as a result of the strikes.
The metro in the city works partially: the movement of trains along the red line of the Kyiv metro is not carried out along the entire branch, from the Akademgorodok station to the Arsenalnaya station. The branch’s section is under scrutiny for fears that a piece of rocket might land there.
In the Ukrainian edition “Strana.ua” reported the explosions in the regions of Kyiv, Kharkov and Vinnitsa.
The head of the regional military administration, Sergei Gamaly, said it was the result of a missile strike in the Ukrainian city of Khmelnitsky. It was damaged military facility. In addition, 13 residential buildings, a gas station and warehouse facilities were damaged.
“There is no damage to critical infrastructure, work is underway to eliminate the consequences of missile strikes and provide medical assistance to victims,” Gamaly said.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine also carried out seven artillery attacks on the DPR. Donetsk was expelled three times, Makiivka three times and Yasinovataya once.
On December 29, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine reported that Russian soldiers had hit about 10 critical infrastructure facilities in the country. 18 houses were damaged.