Authorities estimate over 800,000 could be affected by the strikes on Dnipropetrovsk’s energy infrastructure
More than one million people are left without water and heat in the Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine after another round of Russian strikes on energy infrastructure overnight, the authorities said.
Another figure, given by the country’s energy ministry, put the number of affected at nearly 800,000 people.
“Ukraine’s energy system is under enemy attacks every day, and energy workers are operating in extremely difficult conditions to provide people with light and heat,” the country’s prime minister Yulia Svyrydenko wrote on Telegram.
She added that expected snowfalls and low temperatures were likely going to compound disruptions in the coming weeks.
