Kyiv mayor: Ukrainian “critical infrastructure” could fail “any second”
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Tuesday, January 17, 2023
Vitali Klitschko, the Mayor of Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, warned Monday of his nation’s energy infrastructure, “We don’t talk about a collapse, but it can happen any second” amid Russia’s ongoing invasion.
Millions of Ukrainians now lack electricity, running water, and central heating, which Ukraine attributes to Russian attacks on the grid. Klitschko, accompanied by his brother Wladimir, explained, “[A]ny second Russian rockets can destroy our critical infrastructure in our hometown in Kyiv and not just in Kyiv, in other cities”.
After over 100 Russian airstrikes on Ukrainian infrastructure on Saturday, Herman Haluschenko, the Ukranian minister of energy, reported “most regions” were experiencing “emergency outages”, and Klitschko noted a “deficit of energy around 30%…in Kyiv” Monday. President of Ukraine
Volodymyr Zelenskyy promised crews were working “around the clock” to get the grid functioning again and recognized the outages hitting Kyiv and Kharkiv hardest.
Klitschko continued, “Now in Ukraine it’s pretty cold – negative 10, negative 20, sometimes in winter negative 30 degrees. And in these weather conditions, to live without electricity, to live without heating is almost impossible, and that’s why the situation is critical, we’re fighting to survive.”
The mayor, in Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum, urged the West to expedite shipments of anti-aircraft systems to enable the Ukrainians to repel Russian rockets.