Zelenskiy, Kyiv mayor trade blame as Russian strikes plunge city into darkness
What happened
President Volodymyr Zelensky said Kyiv is in the worst position of any region after Russian strikes, with residents and businesses facing long power and water outages.
He wrote on X after a conference call that the city failed to carry out decisions on preparing for the heating season.
The government is speeding up repairs, Zelensky said, and has agreed with Germany and Spain to supply generators, cables and other equipment.
Mayor Vitali Klitschko rejected the criticism in parliament, saying the authorities staged a show around the resilience plan and blocked funds that froze energy-security projects.
Klitschko said Kyiv lost its own generation in earlier attacks and now depends fully on the national grid; he said the city's power plants took almost 50 hits this year.
Energy company DTEK linked the worsening supply to a shift in Russian tactics and more intense attacks on energy infrastructure.
“In effect, these are the consequences of decisions not being carried out at the city level in preparing for the heating season, and of this Russian operation against Ukrainian energy.”
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