{"id":1778984,"date":"2022-12-18T06:30:16","date_gmt":"2022-12-18T11:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1778984"},"modified":"2022-12-18T07:33:42","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T12:33:42","slug":"power-restored-to-6-million-in-kyiv-following-russia-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/power-restored-to-6-million-in-kyiv-following-russia-strikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Power Restored to 6 Million in Kyiv Following Russia Strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpower-restored-to-6-million-in-kyiv-following-russia-strikes%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1778984&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/552422afb41ee7d96af31bf5d3508862\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>By Dan Peleschuk<\/p>\n<p>KYIV (Reuters) -Basic services were being restored in Ukraine&#8217;s capital Kyiv on Saturday after the latest wave of Russian air strikes on critical infrastructure, as residents navigated a city gripped by fog and girded for a holiday season marked by uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Vitali Klitschko said a quarter of Kyiv remained without heating but that the metro system was back in service and all residents had been reconnected to water supply by early morning.<\/p>\n<p>Only around one-third of the city remained without electricity, he said, but emergency outages would still be implemented to save power. &#8220;Because the deficit of electricity is significant,&#8221; he wrote on the Telegram messaging app.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian officials said Russia fired more than 70 missiles on Friday in one of its heaviest barrages since the Kremlin&#8217;s Feb. 24 invasion, forcing emergency blackouts nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine has managed to restore power to almost 6 million people in the last 24 hours, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a video address.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Repair work continues without a break after yesterday&#8217;s terrorist attack. &#8230; Of course, there is still a lot of work to do to stabilize the system,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are problems with the heat supplies. There are big problems with water supplies,&#8221; Zelenskiy added, saying Kyiv as well as Vinnytsia and Lviv further to the west were experiencing the most difficulty.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Kyiv Mayor Klitschko had warned of an &#8220;apocalypse&#8221; scenario for the capital if Russian air strikes on infrastructure continued, though he also said there was no need yet for people to evacuate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are fighting and doing everything we can to make sure that this does not happen,&#8221; he told Reuters on Dec. 7.<\/p>\n<p>In a gloomy winter haze on Saturday, officials reopened a popular pedestrian bridge that had been damaged during an earlier air strike and were setting up a smaller-than-usual Christmas tree in a central square.<\/p>\n<p>The vast space in front of the centuries-old St. Sophia Cathedral is traditionally anchored by a hulking evergreen at Christmas. But officials this year opted for a 12-metre (40-foot) artificial tree festooned with energy-saving lights powered by a generator.<\/p>\n<p>Orthodox Christians make up the majority of Ukraine&#8217;s 43 million people.<\/p>\n<p>Klitschko said the tree was funded by donors and businesses, and that no public celebrations would take place.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I doubt this will be a true holiday,&#8221; said Kyiv resident Iryna Soloychuk, who arrived with her daughter to see the tree just hours after another round of air-raid alerts wailed across the country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But we should understand that we&#8217;re all together, that we should help one another.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Additional reporting by Yurii Khomenko and David LjunggrenEditing by Frances Kerry)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Dan PeleschukKYIV (Reuters) -Basic services were being restored in Ukraine&#8217;s capital Kyiv on Saturday after the latest wave of Russian air strikes on critical infrastructure, as residents navigated a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1778987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[5458,10004,5084,3819,10003,4280,7283],"class_list":["post-1778984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-bongino","tag-kyiv","tag-power","tag-report","tag-restored","tag-russia","tag-strikes"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1778984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1778987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1778984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1778984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1778984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}