Kyiv’s water supply is operating normally again after the overnight November 7 attacks, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said, while around 60% of the capital’s apartment buildings are connected to heating.
Russian drone and ballistic missile attacks overnight on 7 November damaged Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, causing blackouts and water disruptions, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. The attacks injured 9 people nationwide, including a child, according to the initial reported toll.
Further overnight attacks left more than 600,000 people without electricity in Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukrainian power company DTEK said on 8 November. Another 250,000 people lost power in Kharkiv region after a Russian strike on an infrastructure facility.
The outages followed earlier Russian strikes that had already left the Kyiv region facing difficult electricity conditions. On 6 November, Ukraine’s Energy Ministry said damage had made grid restrictions necessary and crews were working around the clock to restore stable power.
DTEK said important energy facilities in Dnipropetrovsk region were damaged. Engineers were trying to restore a damaged facility, but repeated attacks were complicating repairs, the company said. Outages affected the city of Dnipro and several surrounding districts.
Zlatopil Mayor Mykola Baksheyev said no casualties had been reported after the Kharkiv-region strike. Power engineers were repairing the damage, he said, but the time needed to restore electricity remained unknown.
The Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant also lost its external electricity supply. Its Russian-installed management said protective systems disconnected the damaged Ferosplavna power line and backup diesel generators were powering equipment needed for safe operation. Management said radiation levels at the plant and in the surveillance zone were normal.
The foreign ministers agreed in Paris to increase financial and material support for Ukraine’s energy security, building on an earlier pledge to help the country through winter.
Zelenskyy said the November 7 attacks hit 12 regions, with Kyiv worst affected. The wave involved more than 30 ballistic missiles and over 170 drones. He described disruptions to electricity, water and heating in the capital, as well as damage to homes, the North Bridge and a kindergarten.
Strikes in Kyiv region hit substations connecting the Rivne and Khmelnytsky nuclear power plants to Kyiv and central Ukraine, Zelenskyy said. He also said substations were damaged in Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr, Rivne, Kharkiv and Dnipro regions. Energy Minister Denys Shmyhal said there were power cuts in 5 regions, without specifying how many homes were affected.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said in the November 7 update that the city’s water system was operating normally again and around 60% of apartment buildings were connected to heating. The heating figure describes the seasonal rollout: connections began on 2 November, and before the attacks authorities expected full supply by 12 November.
On 5 November, Klitschko had said almost 45% of residential buildings were connected and that starting the centralized system takes a little more than a week. The Energy Ministry said on 6 November that hourly outages applied in most regions and industry faced power restrictions; crews repaired damage where security allowed and returned after air-raid all-clears.
The November 7 attacks came before Ukrainian and Russian delegations were due to take part in trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi the following week, the BBC said. Zelenskyy characterized the attacks on critical infrastructure as Moscow’s preparation for the talks. He called for increased US support and unity between both US parties on Ukraine’s security, condemnation of Russian aggression and stronger sanctions pressure on Putin.
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