“The electricity situation is difficult in all regions. However, we are slowly moving away from a complete blackout,” Volodymyr said in the evening. Jeansky. The main problems with electricity are: in Kyiv (where, in the evening, 70% of people do not have it, Friday morning – 50 percent), as well as Odessa, Lviv, Poltava, KharkivKherson, Zhytomyr or Dnitroppetrovsk.
After electricity was restored to one part of Kiev in the evening, residents responded with an explosion of euphoria – as seen in the footage below:
Ukraine – Darkness has fallen, but Ukrainians declare: “We are ready to endure it”
“If your town is without electricity or heat for more than 12 hours, take advantage From our vantage points [pracują tam generatory prądu – red.]Zelensky appealed, saying that four thousand points of this type had already been created, and more would be added.Russia He wants Ukrainians not only to lose light and heat, but they want us to be isolated, unable to communicate with each other. (…) Thanks. We’ve gone through nine months of this full-scale war and Russia hasn’t found a way to break us. He won’t find it!”
Ukrainians are doing their best – Anton Herashchenko, adviser to the head of the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs, showed a photo of a girl whose parents went to a gas station to use an inhaler:
He showed off his candlelit meal and said in another post: “Without electricity, we can see more clearly what Russia really is.”
NASA photos of the worst blackout Ukraine has ever experienced since the November 23 shelling:
See more photos of Ukraine from space Here.
“In residences, teachers teach us theory”
Journalists – incl. People from “The Give Independent” – also working by candlelight:
Likewise Musicians of the Kyiv Philharmonic And students of the Kyiv Academy of Fine Arts still attend classes. In Ukrainian universities these are held in hybrid or remote mode. – Our lecturers, suspecting that winter would be difficult, set up a schedule of classes so that as many practical classes as possible were held at the very beginning of learning. When the anti-aircraft alarm goes off – we go to the shelter. Of course, we can not draw there, so lecturers – do not waste Time – They teach us theory in shelters – said 19-year-old Halina from Kyiv in an interview with PAP.
On Friday, First Lady Olena Zelenska also spoke about the lack of electricity. In an interview BBC (Interview in Kiev) said: – We have already experienced many trials, we have seen many victims, and we have seen many destructions, power outage is not the worst thing that can happen to us.
“We are ready to bear it,” he added. He also cited a recent poll in which 90 percent of Ukrainians said they would be willing to live without electricity for two or three years if they saw the prospect of joining the EU, the BBC reported.