More than 1.5 million energy subscribers in Ukraine have been left without electricity in the wake of another wave of Russian attacks, the deputy chief of the Ukrainian president’s office said on Saturday.
Repairs began immediately to fix outages, according to Kirilo Tymoshenko, who shared the update on his Telegram channel.
Air sirens have been activated across the country, with the exception of Russia-annexed Crimea, according to the Ministry of Digital Transformation.
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Local leaders share the situation on the ground: Officials in various regions said on Saturday that a series of new attacks had destroyed infrastructure across central and western Ukraine.
Vitaly Koval, the head of the region’s military department, said on Telegram that residents of the western city of Rivne had been asked to “stay in shelters” while electricians worked to restore electricity across the city.
South of Rivne in Khmelnytskyi, the city council reported that the entire city was without electricity after hearing a series of explosions.
“Please stock up on water, if possible, because it will also be gone in an hour,” the board wrote on Telegram.
Mayor Ihor Bolchuk said parts of Lutsk – in Ukraine’s far west – were left without electricity because of the bombing of a power facility there. He added that rescuers were working to find anyone injured and that one civilian had burns in the blast, but no one appeared to have been killed.
An attack on a power facility in central Ukraine’s Krupivnitsky district also left residents there and in neighboring Cherkassy without power, according to officials from the region’s two military departments.
CNN’s Stephanie Halas contributed to this report.
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