Ukraine and Moldova loses power after missile strikes

• Moldova also experiences “massive blackout” after Russian attacks on Ukraine.
• More than half of Moldova is without electricity, according to deputy prime minister’s tweet.
• Ukrainian government has not commented on any of Wednesday’s claims of air-raid or missile strikes.

After extensive strikes were reported, including in the nation’s capital Kyiv, the whole city of Lviv in western Ukraine is without electricity.

Despite not being directly impacted, Moldova, a neighboring nation, experienced “huge” blackouts.

The mayor of Lviv encouraged residents to seek shelter, while the governor of the larger Kyiv area claimed that important buildings and residences had come under attack.

Russian attacks on Ukrainian energy networks have recently increased.

According to deputy prime minister Andrei Spinu’s tweet on Twitter, more than half of Moldova is without electricity.

After today’s Russian attack on Ukraine’s electricity infrastructure, “massive blackout in Moldova,” he declared.

An earlier air-raid warning was issued for all of Ukraine, and then there were reports of explosions in several places.

Andriy Sadovy, the mayor of Lviv, said teachers and children had been brought to shelters, and he pleaded with parents to hold off on picking up their children until the alert had passed.

Before the most recent reports from Lviv and Kyiv, authorities claimed that southern Ukraine had been subjected to additional attacks.

The Mykolaiv region’s governor issued a warning that “several rockets” were coming from the south and east.

A newborn infant was killed after a missile struck a maternity hospital in the nearby Zaporizhzhia district, according to rescue services.

That attack was attributed to Russia, but the country has not yet commented on any of Wednesday’s claimed strikes.

Due to the recent attacks, scheduled and unscheduled blackouts are becoming frequent in many areas of Ukraine.

There were blackouts in many parts of Ukraine on Wednesday, including Lviv, which is only 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Poland, where two people were killed last week by a Ukrainian air defense missile.

Additionally near to the Polish border, the settlements of Chervonohrad and Yavoriv had power outages.

According to Mr. Spinu, several power outages also occurred in Moldova as a result of the strikes on Ukraine on November 15. Mobile networks were adversely impacted as well.

According to Sergiu Tofilat, a local energy policy specialist, Moldova’s energy supplies depend on a power line that travels via Transnistria, a separatist region of Moldova controlled by Russia that borders Ukraine, before arriving in Chisinau, the capital of Moldova.

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He was cited as adding, “When there are explosions in Ukraine, this line is immediately severed, and we are left without energy.”

Millions of Ukrainians are without electricity as winter temperatures drop as a result of Russian assaults that have devastated nearly half of Ukraine’s electrical infrastructure.

The leader of Ukraine’s largest private energy company recently urged citizens to think about leaving the nation in order to lessen the pressure on the power grid.

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