Jan. 8 (UPI) -- One million people were without heat or water Thursday in the Dnipropetrovsk region of southern Ukraine after major Russian strikes overnight knocked out key civilian infrastructure, Kyiv said.
Deputy Prime Minister Oleksiy Kuleba said utility providers were working to get the power and water back on for residents across the southeast of the country.
Authorities and energy companies announced that power had been restored to about 200,000 customers in Dnipropetrovsk mid-morning, but advised people to stockpile water and use batteries sparingly as they could not guarantee when services would return fully.
Electricity supply to thousands of people in Zaporizhzhia, to the south, was also cut, but the power was now back on, according to President Volodymyr Zelensky, who said the race to restore services in other cities and communities in his home province, including Kamianske, Kryvyi Rih, Nikopol, and Pavlohrad, was continuing.
"Restoration work has been going on non-stop since last night -- crews from all over the region are working. As soon as we restore all critical infrastructure, we will do everything possible to restore power to families as quickly as possible," said DTEK, Ukraine's largest private energy company.
