- Authorities advised Ukrainian refugees to delay their return until spring.
- “We need to survive the winter,” Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said.
- “The networks will not cope,” said Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk. “You see what Russia is doing.”
In order to relieve pressure on the energy grid following a series of Russian attacks, the authorities advised Ukrainian refugees to delay their return until spring.
“The networks will not cope,” said Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk. “You see what Russia is doing.”
“We need to survive the winter,” she said on TV.
Russian airstrikes, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, damaged more than a third of the nation’s energy industry.
Despite her desire for Ukrainians to return in the spring, Ms. Vereshchuk urged them to hold off for the time being since “the situation will only become worse.”
“If it is possible, stay abroad for the time being,” she added.
Serhiy Kiral, the deputy mayor of Lviv, a city in western Ukraine, told the media on Saturday that Russia’s strategy was to destroy vital infrastructure before the winter and spread the battle to locations away from the front lines.
In retaliation for an assault on Russia’s rail and road bridge to Crimea on October 8, Russia started assaulting Ukraine’s energy infrastructure.
The Cherkasy region, to the southeast of Kyiv, and Khmelnytskyi, to the west, are among the areas hit by the most recent attacks.
In Kherson, an area in southern Ukraine controlled by Moscow’s soldiers, Mr. Zelensky claimed on Friday that Russia had mined a hydroelectric dam.
He said that hundreds of thousands of people would be at risk of flooding if the Kakhovka hydroelectric project were to be dismantled. Russia claimed that Ukraine was launching missiles at the dam while denying any plans to destroy it.
Out of a total population of around 44 million, the UN’s refugee agency estimates that 7.7 million refugees from Ukraine have fled to other parts of Europe, including Russia, since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February.
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