In Ukraine, emergency blackouts are carried out to stabilize the energy grid after the missile strikes on the 5th of December, the BBC writes.
Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky has said that about half of the Kyiv region will be without electricity in the coming days. At night, critical infrastructure and residential buildings were hit by rockets in the vicinity of Zaporizhia. No casualties have been reported, but four people died in the strikes on Monday.
Temperatures are below-freezing in much of Ukraine, and millions of residents live without electricity and water. There are fears that large numbers of residents may freeze to death.
Meanwhile, Russia reports drone attacks in the Kursk region, where an oil tanker caught fire. Roman Starovoitov, governor of the Kursk region, informed that there were no victims and did not comment on who carried out the attack.
In his address, Zelensky said that Russia fired 70 missiles, but most were intercepted. The president indicated that the regions in the whole country were affected and promised that authorities would do everything possible to stabilize the situation.
Russian strikes also affect Moldova’s electricity supply, and Zelensky said that it proves that Russia is a threat not only to Ukraine but to the entire region as a whole.
Russia has been shelling civilian infrastructure since early October, with some Western leaders calling it a war crime considering the extent of the damage. Experts point out that there is no military benefit from these actions of Russia, and it does that to terrorize and demoralize the people of Ukraine. Russia denies accusations of war crimes and intentional endangerment of civilians.
Read also: Explosions occur at two Russian military airfields