"It's about survival." The mayor of Kyiv issued an alarming warning to residents of the Ukrainian capital

Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko gave advice to city residents amid infrastructure problems.

Klitschko advised Kiev residents who have friends or relatives outside the capital to leave the city and consider the option of temporary relocation.

The mayor of the Ukrainian capital does not plan to announce a complete evacuation, despite the possible worsening of the water supply crisis.

Earlier, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Energy of Ukraine Denis Shmygal said that an important energy infrastructure facility was damaged in Kyiv. As a result of the explosions, a number of elements of the energy system were turned off, which provided electricity to the Ukrainian capital. As a result, there are power outages in several areas of the city.

Military and energy infrastructure facilities in Kyiv came under attack by the Russian Armed Forces on the night of October 7. According to preliminary information, the Trypillya Thermal Power Plant, the most powerful power plant in the Kyiv region, was hit.

The situation in Kyiv is dramatic

On October 2, Klitschko called the situation in the Ukrainian capital “very dramatic.”

The head of the city emphasized that its critical infrastructure and logistics are now being destroyed.

On the night of September 30, the Armed Forces (AF) of the Russian Federation launched a massive attack on targets in Kyiv and the Kyiv region, as well as in the Odessa, Cherkassy, ​​Poltava, Zhitomir, Rivne, Dnepropetrovsk, Kharkov, Kirovograd and Volyn regions of Ukraine. In several areas of Kyiv, interruptions in water supply and electricity began.

Zelensky was accused of inaction

Former assistant to Leonid Kuchma Oleg Soskin said that the government of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky is guilty of worsening the energy crisis in the country.

Earlier it became known about a loss of voltage in the power grid of the Kyiv metro. Also on October 8, trams and trolleybuses partially stopped running.