Ukraine is switching to emergency shutdowns to stabilise its power grid after Monday’s Russian missile attacks, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said.
He said many regions were affected, and the local authorities warned that about half of the Kyiv region would remain without electricity in the coming days.
Four people were killed in Monday’s attacks.
Overnight, more missiles hit critical infrastructure near the southern city of Zaporizhzhia, officials said.
In a separate development on Tuesday, the governor of Russia’s Kursk region said a drone attack on an airfield set an oil storage tank alight.
Video posted online shows fierce flames and dense black smoke billowing from the site. There were no casualties, said Roman Starovoyt, but two local schools were closed for the day. He did not say who could be behind the attack in the region that borders Ukraine.
In Ukraine, the energy minister said he hoped to significantly reduce the power deficit caused by the latest Russian strikes by Tuesday evening, bringing nuclear power stations back onto the grid.
Credit: bbc.com
