Kyiv Mayor warns of evacuation if power fails

• Kyiv Mayor advises citizens to flee if power is out.
• Russian air attacks have intermittently cut power and water.
• Rolling power cuts prevent overloads and allow repairs.

Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko advised Kyiv citizens to flee if power is out.

Russian air attacks have intermittently cut power and water to millions of Ukrainians.

Rolling power cuts prevent overloads and allow repairs.

Russian power plant and line assaults destroyed 40% of Ukraine’s electricity system.

“Russia may be concentrating forces and means for a probable replay of mass attacks on our infrastructure, energy in the first instance,” said President Volodymyr Zelensky.

The Geneva Conventions prohibit attacking “civilian objects” in combat.

Mayor Klitschko called Russia’s infrastructure attacks “terrorism” and “genocide” on Ukrainian TV.

Putin leads Russia “doesn’t need Ukrainians. He wants land, Ukraine without us “ex-heavyweight fighter remarked.

“It’s genocide because infrastructure strikes are happening now. He must kill, freeze, or expel us to take our land.”

Another Kyiv official warned that water and sewerage might fail in a total outage.

Kyiv’s winter temperatures plunge below freezing at night.

While authorities are trying “everything” to keep the lights on and water flowing, Mr. Klitschko is preparing for many situations.

The 51-year-old advised Kyiv’s three million residents to remain with friends or family in the suburbs who still have water and power in the “worst case” if the supply is cut.

He stated that residents should stockpile fuel, food, and water like the authorities. The city is building at least 1,000 emergency heating shelters.

Roman Tkachuk, Kyiv’s Director of Security, echoed the mayor on Telegram.

He said city officials were planning but “there are no reasons to talk about the evacuation at the present”.

Kyiv residents say they know power could go out and supplies could run out.

The BBC reported that 30-year-old father-of-two Dmytro had planned to flee Kyiv if things became worse. He bought generators and fuel and will move his family to his grandparents’ house outside Kyiv.

After “authorities indicated that they were going to open heating spots” two weeks earlier, he started planning.

“I realized there would be no electricity,” he said.

Russian-installed authorities in Kherson blamed a Ukrainian strike on neighboring power lines and a strategic dam for power and water outages.

They advised locals to “stay calm” and promised a “quick” resolution.

The Ukrainian regional administration leader blamed Russia for the power outage.

According to Russian media, the missile-damaged hydroelectric Kakhovka dam caused some of the power outage. Ukraine has not commented on the unverified reports.

In recent weeks, Ukraine has threatened that Russian soldiers may blow up the dam, flooding hundreds of thousands of people.

Kherson, downriver of the dam, fell to Russia in the initial days of the war, but Ukrainian soldiers are advancing to retake it.

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