Most Ukrainians left without power after new Russian strikes
Cars drive past residential blocks which were de-energized after a Russian rocket attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Police officers inspect corpses of people killed after a Russian rocket attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Ukrainian firefighters work at a damaged hospital maternity ward in Vilniansk, Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. A Russian rocket struck the maternity wing of a hospital in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday, killing a newborn boy and critically injuring a doctor. The overnight explosion left the small-town hospital a crumbled mess of bricks, scattering medical supplies across the small compound. (AP Photo/Kateryna Klochko)
Relatives, friends, and comrades mourn next to the coffin of Ukrainian serviceman Sergii Myronov, killed fighting Russian troops in Donetsk region, during a funeral ceremony at St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Kravchenko)
Cars are parked in front of a shop, near residential blocks which were de-energized after a Russian rocket attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
People check a damaged building as emergency personnel work at the scene of a Russian shelling in the town of Vyshgorod outside the capital Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. Authorities reported power outages in multiple cities of Ukraine, including parts of Kyiv, and in neighboring Moldova after renewed strikes Wednesday struck Ukrainian infrastructure facilities. Multiple regions reported attacks in quick succession, suggesting a barrage of strikes. In several regions, authorities reported strikes on critical infrastructure. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
In this photo provided by the Kyiv Regional Police, people carry a body at the scene of a Russian shelling in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. Authorities reported power outages in multiple cities of Ukraine, including parts of Kyiv, and in neighboring Moldova after renewed strikes on Wednesday struck Ukrainian infrastructure facilities. (Kyiv Regional Police via AP)
A vendor uses a flashlight inside a small food shop during a power outage in Chisinau, Moldova, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. Moldova suffered massive power outages on Wednesday after Russian strikes on neighboring Ukraine’s energy infrastructure left the small non-European Union country in the dark for the second time in little more than a week. (AP Photo/Aurel Obreja)
A trolley bus is stuck on a boulevard during a power outage in Chisinau, Moldova, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. Moldova suffered massive power outages on Wednesday after Russian strikes on neighboring Ukraine’s energy infrastructure left the small non-European Union country in the dark for the second time in little more than a week. (AP Photo/Aurel Obreja)
Ukrainian State Emergency Service firefighters work to extinguish a fire at the scene of a Russian shelling in the town of Vyshgorod outside the capital Kiev, Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. Authorities reported power outages in multiple cities of Ukraine, including parts of Kyiv, and in neighboring Moldova after renewed strikes Wednesday struck Ukrainian infrastructure facilities. Multiple regions reported attacks in quick succession, suggesting a barrage of strikes. In several regions, authorities reported strikes on critical infrastructure. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Staff carry 13-year-old Artur Voblikov on a stretcher up the stairs to the operating room inside a hospital in Kherson, southern Ukraine, Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022. Arthur Voblikova was injured after a Russian strike, and doctors had to amputate his left arm. As attacks increase in the recently liberated city of Kherson, doctors are struggling to cope amid little water, electricity and a lack of equipment. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Natalia Voblikova, center, reacts after knowing that her son Artur was seriously injured after a Russian strike in Kherson, southern Ukraine, Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022. Artur Voblikov, 13, was injured after a Russian strike, and doctors had to amputate his left arm. As attacks increase in the recently liberated city of Kherson, doctors are struggling to cope amid little water, electricity and a lack of equipment. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Doctors operate on 13-year-old Artur Voblikov inside a hospital in Kherson, southern Ukraine, Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022. Arthur Voblikova was injured after a Russian strike, and doctors had to amputate his left arm. As attacks increase in the recently liberated city of Kherson, doctors are struggling to cope amid little water, electricity and a lack of equipment. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
A man walks by a trolley bus that is stuck on a boulevard during a power outage in Chisinau, Moldova, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. Moldova suffered massive power outages on Wednesday after Russian strikes on neighboring Ukraine’s energy infrastructure left the small non-European Union country in the dark for the second time in little more than a week. (AP Photo/Aurel Obreja)
Staff move 13-year-old Arthur Voblikova to the operating room inside a hospital in Kherson, southern Ukraine, Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022. Artur Voblikov was injured after a Russian strike, and doctors had to amputate his left arm. As attacks increase in the recently liberated city of Kherson, doctors are struggling to cope amid little water, electricity and a lack of equipment. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Natalia Voblikova and her daughter wait in a hospital corridor, right, as doctors stabilize Natalia’s son in Kherson, southern Ukraine, Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022. Artur Voblikov, 13, was injured after a Russian strike, and doctors had to amputate his left arm. As attacks increase in the recently liberated city of Kherson, doctors are struggling to cope amid little water, electricity and a lack of equipment. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Ukrainian firefighters work at a damaged hospital maternity ward in Vilniansk, Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. A Russian rocket struck the maternity wing of a hospital in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday, killing a newborn boy and critically injuring a doctor. (AP Photo/Kateryna Klochko)
Police officers inspect corpses of people killed after a Russian rocket attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Ukrainian State Emergency Service firefighters work to extinguish a fire after Russian rocket attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
In this photo provided by the Zaporizhzhia region military administration, Ukrainian firefighters work at damaged hospital maternity ward in Vilniansk, Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine, early Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. An overnight rocket attack struck a hospital maternity ward in southern Ukraine, killing a newborn baby, Ukrainian authorities said Wednesday. The baby’s mother and a doctor were pulled alive from the rubble. The region’s governor said the rockets were Russian. (Zaporizhzhia region military administration via AP)
Ukrainian State Emergency Service firefighters work to extinguish a fire at the scene of a Russian shelling in the town of Vyshgorod outside the capital Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. Authorities reported power outages in multiple cities of Ukraine, including parts of Kyiv, and in neighboring Moldova after renewed strikes Wednesday struck Ukrainian infrastructure facilities. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
A firefighter walks in front of destroyed cars after Russian rocket attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Dead bodies seen at the scene of Russian shelling in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. Authorities reported power outages in multiple cities of Ukraine, including parts of Kyiv, and in neighboring Moldova after renewed strikes Wednesday struck Ukrainian infrastructure facilities. Multiple regions reported attacks in quick succession, suggesting a barrage of strikes. In several regions, authorities reported strikes on critical infrastructure. (AP Photo/Andrew Kravchenko)
Ukrainian State Emergency Service firefighters work to extinguish a fire at the scene of a Russian shelling in the town of Vyshgorod outside the capital Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. Authorities reported power outages in multiple cities of Ukraine, including parts of Kyiv, and in neighboring Moldova after renewed strikes Wednesday struck Ukrainian infrastructure facilities. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Ukrainian State Emergency Service firefighters work to extinguish a fire at the scene of a Russian shelling in the town of Vyshgorod outside the capital Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. Authorities reported power outages in multiple cities of Ukraine, including parts of Kyiv, and in neighboring Moldova after renewed strikes Wednesday struck Ukrainian infrastructure facilities. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Relatives, friends, and comrades mourn next to the coffin of Ukrainian serviceman Sergii Myronov, killed fighting Russian troops in Donetsk region, during a funeral ceremony at St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Kravchenko)
Cars drive past residential blocks which were de-energized after a Russian rocket attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Police officers inspect corpses of people killed after a Russian rocket attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Ukrainian firefighters work at a damaged hospital maternity ward in Vilniansk, Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. A Russian rocket struck the maternity wing of a hospital in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday, killing a newborn boy and critically injuring a doctor. The overnight explosion left the small-town hospital a crumbled mess of bricks, scattering medical supplies across the small compound. (AP Photo/Kateryna Klochko)
Ukrainian firefighters work at a damaged hospital maternity ward in Vilniansk, Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. A Russian rocket struck the maternity wing of a hospital in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday, killing a newborn boy and critically injuring a doctor. The overnight explosion left the small-town hospital a crumbled mess of bricks, scattering medical supplies across the small compound. (AP Photo/Kateryna Klochko)
Relatives, friends, and comrades mourn next to the coffin of Ukrainian serviceman Sergii Myronov, killed fighting Russian troops in Donetsk region, during a funeral ceremony at St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Kravchenko)
Relatives, friends, and comrades mourn next to the coffin of Ukrainian serviceman Sergii Myronov, killed fighting Russian troops in Donetsk region, during a funeral ceremony at St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Kravchenko)
Cars are parked in front of a shop, near residential blocks which were de-energized after a Russian rocket attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
People check a damaged building as emergency personnel work at the scene of a Russian shelling in the town of Vyshgorod outside the capital Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. Authorities reported power outages in multiple cities of Ukraine, including parts of Kyiv, and in neighboring Moldova after renewed strikes Wednesday struck Ukrainian infrastructure facilities. Multiple regions reported attacks in quick succession, suggesting a barrage of strikes. In several regions, authorities reported strikes on critical infrastructure. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
People check a damaged building as emergency personnel work at the scene of a Russian shelling in the town of Vyshgorod outside the capital Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. Authorities reported power outages in multiple cities of Ukraine, including parts of Kyiv, and in neighboring Moldova after renewed strikes Wednesday struck Ukrainian infrastructure facilities. Multiple regions reported attacks in quick succession, suggesting a barrage of strikes. In several regions, authorities reported strikes on critical infrastructure. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
In this photo provided by the Kyiv Regional Police, people carry a body at the scene of a Russian shelling in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. Authorities reported power outages in multiple cities of Ukraine, including parts of Kyiv, and in neighboring Moldova after renewed strikes on Wednesday struck Ukrainian infrastructure facilities. (Kyiv Regional Police via AP)
In this photo provided by the Kyiv Regional Police, people carry a body at the scene of a Russian shelling in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. Authorities reported power outages in multiple cities of Ukraine, including parts of Kyiv, and in neighboring Moldova after renewed strikes on Wednesday struck Ukrainian infrastructure facilities. (Kyiv Regional Police via AP)
A vendor uses a flashlight inside a small food shop during a power outage in Chisinau, Moldova, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. Moldova suffered massive power outages on Wednesday after Russian strikes on neighboring Ukraine’s energy infrastructure left the small non-European Union country in the dark for the second time in little more than a week. (AP Photo/Aurel Obreja)
A vendor uses a flashlight inside a small food shop during a power outage in Chisinau, Moldova, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. Moldova suffered massive power outages on Wednesday after Russian strikes on neighboring Ukraine’s energy infrastructure left the small non-European Union country in the dark for the second time in little more than a week. (AP Photo/Aurel Obreja)
A trolley bus is stuck on a boulevard during a power outage in Chisinau, Moldova, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. Moldova suffered massive power outages on Wednesday after Russian strikes on neighboring Ukraine’s energy infrastructure left the small non-European Union country in the dark for the second time in little more than a week. (AP Photo/Aurel Obreja)
A trolley bus is stuck on a boulevard during a power outage in Chisinau, Moldova, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. Moldova suffered massive power outages on Wednesday after Russian strikes on neighboring Ukraine’s energy infrastructure left the small non-European Union country in the dark for the second time in little more than a week. (AP Photo/Aurel Obreja)
Ukrainian State Emergency Service firefighters work to extinguish a fire at the scene of a Russian shelling in the town of Vyshgorod outside the capital Kiev, Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. Authorities reported power outages in multiple cities of Ukraine, including parts of Kyiv, and in neighboring Moldova after renewed strikes Wednesday struck Ukrainian infrastructure facilities. Multiple regions reported attacks in quick succession, suggesting a barrage of strikes. In several regions, authorities reported strikes on critical infrastructure. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Ukrainian State Emergency Service firefighters work to extinguish a fire at the scene of a Russian shelling in the town of Vyshgorod outside the capital Kiev, Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. Authorities reported power outages in multiple cities of Ukraine, including parts of Kyiv, and in neighboring Moldova after renewed strikes Wednesday struck Ukrainian infrastructure facilities. Multiple regions reported attacks in quick succession, suggesting a barrage of strikes. In several regions, authorities reported strikes on critical infrastructure. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Staff carry 13-year-old Artur Voblikov on a stretcher up the stairs to the operating room inside a hospital in Kherson, southern Ukraine, Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022. Arthur Voblikova was injured after a Russian strike, and doctors had to amputate his left arm. As attacks increase in the recently liberated city of Kherson, doctors are struggling to cope amid little water, electricity and a lack of equipment. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Staff carry 13-year-old Artur Voblikov on a stretcher up the stairs to the operating room inside a hospital in Kherson, southern Ukraine, Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022. Arthur Voblikova was injured after a Russian strike, and doctors had to amputate his left arm. As attacks increase in the recently liberated city of Kherson, doctors are struggling to cope amid little water, electricity and a lack of equipment. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Natalia Voblikova, center, reacts after knowing that her son Artur was seriously injured after a Russian strike in Kherson, southern Ukraine, Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022. Artur Voblikov, 13, was injured after a Russian strike, and doctors had to amputate his left arm. As attacks increase in the recently liberated city of Kherson, doctors are struggling to cope amid little water, electricity and a lack of equipment. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Natalia Voblikova, center, reacts after knowing that her son Artur was seriously injured after a Russian strike in Kherson, southern Ukraine, Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022. Artur Voblikov, 13, was injured after a Russian strike, and doctors had to amputate his left arm. As attacks increase in the recently liberated city of Kherson, doctors are struggling to cope amid little water, electricity and a lack of equipment. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Doctors operate on 13-year-old Artur Voblikov inside a hospital in Kherson, southern Ukraine, Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022. Arthur Voblikova was injured after a Russian strike, and doctors had to amputate his left arm. As attacks increase in the recently liberated city of Kherson, doctors are struggling to cope amid little water, electricity and a lack of equipment. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Doctors operate on 13-year-old Artur Voblikov inside a hospital in Kherson, southern Ukraine, Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022. Arthur Voblikova was injured after a Russian strike, and doctors had to amputate his left arm. As attacks increase in the recently liberated city of Kherson, doctors are struggling to cope amid little water, electricity and a lack of equipment. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
A man walks by a trolley bus that is stuck on a boulevard during a power outage in Chisinau, Moldova, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. Moldova suffered massive power outages on Wednesday after Russian strikes on neighboring Ukraine’s energy infrastructure left the small non-European Union country in the dark for the second time in little more than a week. (AP Photo/Aurel Obreja)
A man walks by a trolley bus that is stuck on a boulevard during a power outage in Chisinau, Moldova, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. Moldova suffered massive power outages on Wednesday after Russian strikes on neighboring Ukraine’s energy infrastructure left the small non-European Union country in the dark for the second time in little more than a week. (AP Photo/Aurel Obreja)
Staff move 13-year-old Arthur Voblikova to the operating room inside a hospital in Kherson, southern Ukraine, Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022. Artur Voblikov was injured after a Russian strike, and doctors had to amputate his left arm. As attacks increase in the recently liberated city of Kherson, doctors are struggling to cope amid little water, electricity and a lack of equipment. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Staff move 13-year-old Arthur Voblikova to the operating room inside a hospital in Kherson, southern Ukraine, Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022. Artur Voblikov was injured after a Russian strike, and doctors had to amputate his left arm. As attacks increase in the recently liberated city of Kherson, doctors are struggling to cope amid little water, electricity and a lack of equipment. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Natalia Voblikova and her daughter wait in a hospital corridor, right, as doctors stabilize Natalia’s son in Kherson, southern Ukraine, Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022. Artur Voblikov, 13, was injured after a Russian strike, and doctors had to amputate his left arm. As attacks increase in the recently liberated city of Kherson, doctors are struggling to cope amid little water, electricity and a lack of equipment. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Natalia Voblikova and her daughter wait in a hospital corridor, right, as doctors stabilize Natalia’s son in Kherson, southern Ukraine, Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022. Artur Voblikov, 13, was injured after a Russian strike, and doctors had to amputate his left arm. As attacks increase in the recently liberated city of Kherson, doctors are struggling to cope amid little water, electricity and a lack of equipment. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Ukrainian firefighters work at a damaged hospital maternity ward in Vilniansk, Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. A Russian rocket struck the maternity wing of a hospital in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday, killing a newborn boy and critically injuring a doctor. (AP Photo/Kateryna Klochko)
Ukrainian firefighters work at a damaged hospital maternity ward in Vilniansk, Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. A Russian rocket struck the maternity wing of a hospital in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday, killing a newborn boy and critically injuring a doctor. (AP Photo/Kateryna Klochko)
Police officers inspect corpses of people killed after a Russian rocket attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Ukrainian State Emergency Service firefighters work to extinguish a fire after Russian rocket attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
In this photo provided by the Zaporizhzhia region military administration, Ukrainian firefighters work at damaged hospital maternity ward in Vilniansk, Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine, early Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. An overnight rocket attack struck a hospital maternity ward in southern Ukraine, killing a newborn baby, Ukrainian authorities said Wednesday. The baby’s mother and a doctor were pulled alive from the rubble. The region’s governor said the rockets were Russian. (Zaporizhzhia region military administration via AP)
In this photo provided by the Zaporizhzhia region military administration, Ukrainian firefighters work at damaged hospital maternity ward in Vilniansk, Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine, early Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. An overnight rocket attack struck a hospital maternity ward in southern Ukraine, killing a newborn baby, Ukrainian authorities said Wednesday. The baby’s mother and a doctor were pulled alive from the rubble. The region’s governor said the rockets were Russian. (Zaporizhzhia region military administration via AP)
Ukrainian State Emergency Service firefighters work to extinguish a fire at the scene of a Russian shelling in the town of Vyshgorod outside the capital Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. Authorities reported power outages in multiple cities of Ukraine, including parts of Kyiv, and in neighboring Moldova after renewed strikes Wednesday struck Ukrainian infrastructure facilities. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Ukrainian State Emergency Service firefighters work to extinguish a fire at the scene of a Russian shelling in the town of Vyshgorod outside the capital Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. Authorities reported power outages in multiple cities of Ukraine, including parts of Kyiv, and in neighboring Moldova after renewed strikes Wednesday struck Ukrainian infrastructure facilities. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
A firefighter walks in front of destroyed cars after Russian rocket attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Dead bodies seen at the scene of Russian shelling in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. Authorities reported power outages in multiple cities of Ukraine, including parts of Kyiv, and in neighboring Moldova after renewed strikes Wednesday struck Ukrainian infrastructure facilities. Multiple regions reported attacks in quick succession, suggesting a barrage of strikes. In several regions, authorities reported strikes on critical infrastructure. (AP Photo/Andrew Kravchenko)
Dead bodies seen at the scene of Russian shelling in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. Authorities reported power outages in multiple cities of Ukraine, including parts of Kyiv, and in neighboring Moldova after renewed strikes Wednesday struck Ukrainian infrastructure facilities. Multiple regions reported attacks in quick succession, suggesting a barrage of strikes. In several regions, authorities reported strikes on critical infrastructure. (AP Photo/Andrew Kravchenko)
Ukrainian State Emergency Service firefighters work to extinguish a fire at the scene of a Russian shelling in the town of Vyshgorod outside the capital Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. Authorities reported power outages in multiple cities of Ukraine, including parts of Kyiv, and in neighboring Moldova after renewed strikes Wednesday struck Ukrainian infrastructure facilities. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Ukrainian State Emergency Service firefighters work to extinguish a fire at the scene of a Russian shelling in the town of Vyshgorod outside the capital Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. Authorities reported power outages in multiple cities of Ukraine, including parts of Kyiv, and in neighboring Moldova after renewed strikes Wednesday struck Ukrainian infrastructure facilities. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Ukrainian State Emergency Service firefighters work to extinguish a fire at the scene of a Russian shelling in the town of Vyshgorod outside the capital Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. Authorities reported power outages in multiple cities of Ukraine, including parts of Kyiv, and in neighboring Moldova after renewed strikes Wednesday struck Ukrainian infrastructure facilities. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Ukrainian State Emergency Service firefighters work to extinguish a fire at the scene of a Russian shelling in the town of Vyshgorod outside the capital Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. Authorities reported power outages in multiple cities of Ukraine, including parts of Kyiv, and in neighboring Moldova after renewed strikes Wednesday struck Ukrainian infrastructure facilities. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Relatives, friends, and comrades mourn next to the coffin of Ukrainian serviceman Sergii Myronov, killed fighting Russian troops in Donetsk region, during a funeral ceremony at St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Kravchenko)
Relatives, friends, and comrades mourn next to the coffin of Ukrainian serviceman Sergii Myronov, killed fighting Russian troops in Donetsk region, during a funeral ceremony at St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Kravchenko)
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia unleashed a new missile onslaught on Ukraine’s battered energy grid Wednesday, robbing cities of power and some of water and public transport, too, compounding the hardship of winter for millions. The aerial mauling of power supplies also took nuclear plants and internet links offline and spilled blackouts into neighbor Moldova.
Multiple regions reported attacks in quick succession and cascading outages. Ukraine’s Energy Ministry said supplies were cut to “the vast majority of electricity consumers.” Lviv’s trams and trolleybuses stopped running as the city in western Ukraine lost both power and water, the mayor said. All of Kyiv lost water, the capital’s mayor said. Power also went out and public transport stopped in Kharkiv, the mayor of that northeastern city, Ukraine’s second largest, said.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy instructed Ukraine’s ambassador to the United Nations to request an urgent Security Council meeting.
Addressing it later on Wednesday, Zelenskyy said that Ukraine will put forward a resolution condemning “any forms of energy terror.” Referring to Russia’s likely veto, he said, “it’s nonsense that the veto right is secured for the party that wages this war, this criminal war.”
“We cannot be hostage to one international terrorist,” Zelenskyy said, saying the council must act.
He also invited the U.N. to send experts to examine and evaluate Ukraine’s critical infrastructure.
Three people were killed and 11 wounded in a strike in Kyiv, city authorities said. Another four people were killed and 35 wounded in the wider Kyiv region, its governor said.
“I was going up the escalator, I heard an explosion. Then the electricity suddenly disappeared,” said Kyiv subway passenger Oleksii Kolpachov. “When I got out of the subway, there was a column of smoke.”
Russia has been pounding the power grid and other facilities with missiles and exploding drones for weeks, wreaking damage faster than it can be repaired. Strikes had already damaged around half of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, Zelenskyy said before the latest barrage, and rolling power outages had become the horrid new normal for millions.
Ukrainian officials believe Russian President Vladimir Putin is hoping that the misery of unheated and unlit homes in winter’s cold and dark will turn public opinion against a continuation of the war — but say it’s instead strengthening Ukrainian resolve.
Ukraine’s Air Force said Russia launched around 70 cruise missiles and 51 were shot down, as were five exploding drones. The afternoon timing of the barrage — as was also the case last week — left workers toiling into the winter darkness to restore supplies.
Russian U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia told the Security Council that Moscow is carrying out “strikes against infrastructure in response to the unbridled flow of weapons to Ukraine and the reckless appeals of Kyiv to defeat Russia.”
In Kyiv, a city of 3 million, the administration said water and heating would only return to residential buildings on Thursday morning.
Late Wednesday and well after dark, the deputy head of Ukraine’s presidential office said that Kyiv and over a dozen regions, including Lviv and Odesa in the south, had been reconnected to the power grid.
Moldova, with Soviet-era energy systems interconnected with Ukraine, also reported massive power outages — for the second time this month. President Maia Sandu accused Moscow of plunging the country of 2.6 million into darkness and the foreign minister summoned Russia’s ambassador for explanations.
“We cannot trust a regime that leaves us in the dark and cold, that intentionally kills people, out of a simple desire to keep other peoples in poverty and humiliation,” Sandu said.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called Russia’s waves of strikes in recent weeks “intolerable” and said: “This bombing terror against the civilian population must stop, and immediately.”
U.N. political chief Rosemary DiCarlo said at the Security Council meeting on Wednesday the U.N. demands that Russia immediately stop the attacks, which violate international humanitarian law, stressing “there must be accountability for an violations of the laws of war.”
U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield said that Putin is “weaponizing winter to inflict intense suffering on the Ukraine people.”
“He has decided that if he can’t seize Ukraine by force, he will try to freeze the country into submission,” she said.
Ukraine’s state-owned nuclear operator, Energoatom, said the country’s last three fully functioning nuclear power stations were all disconnected from the power grid in an “emergency protection” measure. It said radiation levels were unchanged at the sites and “all indicators are normal.”
The Energy Ministry said the attacks also caused a temporary blackout of most thermal and hydroelectric power plants, and also affected transmission facilities. Repair teams were working “but given the extent of the damage, we will need time,” it said on Facebook.
Wednesday’s blackouts also caused “the largest internet outage in Ukraine in months and the first to affect neighboring Moldova, which has since partially recovered,” said Doug Madory, director of internet analysis at network-monitoring Kentik Inc.
The onslaught followed an overnight Russian rocket attack in the town of Vilniansk, close to the city of Zaporizhzhia in southern Ukraine, that destroyed a hospital maternity ward, killing a 2-day-old newborn boy and critically injuring a doctor.
“The first S300 rocket hit the road. The second rocket hit this place, the main general hospital, at the maternity wing,” said Mayor Nataliya Usienko. “One woman gave birth two days ago. She delivered a boy. Unfortunately this rocket took the life of this child who lived only two days.”
On Twitter, Ukraine’s First Lady Olena Zelenska wrote: “Horrible pain. We will never forget and never forgive.”
The strike adds to the gruesome toll suffered by hospitals and other medical facilities — and their patients and staff — in the Russian invasion that will enter its tenth month this week.
They have been in the firing line from the outset, including a March 9 airstrike that destroyed a maternity hospital in the now-occupied port city of Mariupol.
In the southern city of Kherson, which Ukraine recaptured two weeks ago, many doctors are working without power in the dark, unable to use elevators to transport patients to surgery and operating with headlamps, cell phones and flashlights. In some hospitals, key equipment no longer works.
“Breathing machines don’t work, X-ray machines don’t work ... There is only one portable ultrasound machine and we carry it constantly,” said Volodymyr Malishchuk, head of surgery at a Kherson children’s hospital.
On Tuesday, after strikes on Kherson seriously wounded 13-year-old Artur Voblikov, a team of health staff carefully maneuvered the sedated boy up six narrow flights of stairs to an operating room to amputate his left arm.
Malischchuk said three children wounded by Russian strikes have come to the hospital this week. Picking up a piece of shrapnel found in a 14-year-old boy’s stomach, he said children are arriving with severe head injuries and ruptured organs.
Artur’s mother, Natalia Voblikova, sat in the dark hospital with her daughter, waiting for his surgery to end.
“You can’t even call (Russians) animals, because animals take care of their own,” said Voblikova wiping tears from her eyes. “But the children ... Why kill children?”
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Mednick reported from Kherson, Ukraine. Lori Hinnant in Vilniansk, Hanna Arhirova in Kyiv and Edith M. Lederer at the United Nations also contributed.
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