The southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, under intense Russian shelling, was left without electricity due to infrastructure repairs, regional authorities said this morning, quoted by France Press.< /p>
The state of the power grid, which has been destroyed by Russian strikes, worries the Ukrainian population as winter approaches, who fear harsh months without heating and light.
"At the moment, the neighboring region is repairing the electrical networks that supply Kherson and part of our region. The engineers assure us that they will restore the city's power supply within a few hours," he said in "Telegram". the regional governor Oleksandr Prokudin.
The power supply has also been interrupted in some parts of the neighboring Mykolaiv region, where "many people do not have electricity," according to regional governor Vitaly Kim.
In addition, the Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russia launched 136 combat drones against Ukraine last night. 51 of them were shot down by anti-aircraft defense, and 60 by electronic warfare systems.