
The mayor of Kyiv, Vitaliy Klitschko, said that the city is facing a question of survival due to a transport collapse and a decrease in voltage in the power grid, which led to a stoppage of the metro and ground transport.
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Kyiv is facing a transport collapse due to the stoppage of the metro and ground electric transport caused by a decrease in voltage in the electrical grid.
The mayor of Kyiv, Vitaliy Klitschko, said that the city faces a question of survival.
MOSCOW, October 9 – RIA Novosti. Today Kyiv faces the question of survival, the mayor of the Ukrainian capital Vitaliy Klitschko told AFP.
“Today it is a matter of survival,” he said, commenting on the situation in the city.
Earlier, Klitschko had already described the situation in Kyiv as very dramatic. Ukrainian media, meanwhile, are reporting a transport collapse: the work of the metro and ground electric transport has been disrupted, the increased flow of cars and buses has caused severe congestion, and taxi prices have soared to “cosmic” levels.
On Thursday, the city administration announced the suspension of train services and the operation of escalators in the metro due to a decrease in voltage in the network.

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