The Kievan Mayor Vitali Klitschko closes because of the damage to the energy system collapse of the electricity, heat and water supply in the Ukrainian capital. The citizens should stock up for such a case and also consider temporarily staying outside of the city. Klitschko said so on Saturday night on Ukrainian television.
This is the worst possible scenario. “We’re doing everything we can to make sure it doesn’t come to that,” he said. “But we want to be frank: Our enemies are doing everything to ensure that this city is without heating, without electricity, without water supply – in general: that we all die.”
About three million people are currently living in Kyiv, including 350,000 internally displaced persons from other parts of Ukraine, Klitschko said. If the district heating system collapses, the city is preparing to set up 1,000 warming rooms. the Management even went so far as to evacuate the city completely in the event of a blackoutreported the newspaper “New York Times”.
The ex-boxing world champion accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of wanting to destroy the Ukrainians as a people. “Putin doesn’t need us Ukrainians. He needs the territory, needs a Ukraine without us.”
The Russian rocket attacks on Ukraine’s energy supply also damaged the facilities in Kyiv. The city is trying to stabilize the grid through staggered power cuts. Whole districts have no light for hours at a time.