Ukraine faces its harshest winter since the Russian invasion.
Ukrainians should expect power outages lasting between four and 18 hours a day this winter due to Russian strikes on Ukraine’s power grid, according to the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU), which visited seven power plants damaged or destroyed in the attacks, as well as 28 settlements affected by the strikes.
There are reasonable grounds to believe that multiple aspects of the military campaign to damage or destroy Ukraine’s civilian electricity and heat production and transmission infrastructure violate fundamental principles of international humanitarian law, the report says.
The UN said Russian attacks pose a threat to Ukraine’s water supply, sewerage and sanitation, heating and hot water, public health, education and the economy as a whole.
It is noted that the winter will be especially difficult for urban areas, because most houses in cities are connected to centralized heating and hot water supply systems. The HRMMU noted that about 95% of Kyiv residents use centralized basement heating systems; electric pumps are needed to supply heat to the upper floors of the building.
Let us recall that Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Shmyhal said that Ukraine has successfully overcome three heating seasons, but this winter could be the hardest. The head of government noted that the Russians have actually destroyed all the thermal power plants that were located around Kharkov and maintained Kharkov. Small mobile boiler houses of 1 MW are now being brought to the regional center.
Source: Racurs
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