People walk past a Christmas tree during heavy fog at the Sofiyska square in Kyiv. Vladyslav Musiienko/Reuters
People walk past a Christmas tree during heavy fog at the Sofiyska square in Kyiv. Vladyslav Musiienko/Reuters
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· Heating has been fully restored to Kyiv after the latest Russian bombardment that targeted water and power infrastructure, the capital's Mayor Vitali Klitschko said. "The city is restoring all services after the latest shelling," he said. "In particular, the capital's heat supply system was fully restored. All sources of heat supply work normally." READ MORE BELOW
· President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine has restored power to almost 6 million people in the last 24 hours. "Repair work continues without a break ... Of course, there is still a lot of work to do to stabilize the system," he said.
· Russia's Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu has inspected the country's troops involved in Moscow's "special military operation" in Ukraine, the defence ministry said on Sunday. "The head of the Russian military flew around the areas of deployment of troops and checked the advanced positions of Russian units in the zone of the special military operation," it stated.
· Poland's police chief said that an explosion in his office was caused by a grenade launcher, telling private broadcaster RMF FM that he had received two of the weapons as a gift from Ukraine. Prosecutors said they were investigating the blast, which resulted in Police Commander in Chief Jaroslaw Szymczyk being taken to hospital.
· The speed with which Germany managed to build and link up its first floating gas terminal to replace lost supplies of Russian gas should serve as a model for a new, pacier German economy, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said at the terminal's opening.
· Moldova has reached a short-term energy deal that would help wean one of Europe's poorest countries off its dependence on Russian natural gas, a senior official has said.
· The latest round of European Union sanctions against Russia over Ukraine will just exacerbate problems within the bloc, a spokeswoman for Russia's foreign ministry said
· A shield is being set up over a storage site for spent nuclear waste at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine to protect it from shelling and drones, a Russian-installed official said
· A 36-year-old man was killed inside his car after Russian forces shelled the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, the regional governor said.
· The time is approaching for a negotiated peace in Ukraine to reduce the risk of another devastating world war, but dreams of breaking up Russia could unleash nuclear chaos, veteran U.S. diplomat Henry Kissinger said.
A woman sits in her destroyed home in Kramatorsk, southern Ukraine. Oleksandr Ratushniak/Reuters
A woman sits in her destroyed home in Kramatorsk, southern Ukraine. Oleksandr Ratushniak/Reuters
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Heating has been restored to Kyiv after attacks on water and power infrastructure, says mayor
Heating has been fully restored to Kyiv after the latest Russian bombardment that targeted water and power infrastructure, the capital's Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Sunday.
"The city is restoring all services after the latest shelling," Klitschko said on Telegram.
"In particular, the capital's heat supply system was fully restored. All sources of heat supply work normally."
Ukrainian officials said Russia fired more than 70 missiles on Friday in one of its heaviest barrages since the Kremlin's February 24 invasion, forcing emergency blackouts nationwide and cutting access to heat and water.
Temperatures in Kyiv and many places across Ukraine were below freezing on Sunday morning, with forecasts expecting them to dip to -6C in the capital by the evening.
Kyiv is by far the largest city in Ukraine with an estimated population of about three million, with up to two million more in the Kyiv region.
As of late Saturday, a third of the city remained without power.
Sergei Kovalenko, chief executive of YASNO, which provides electricity for Kyiv said late on Saturday that access to power has been increasing with each hour.
"The situation remains difficult and critical," Kovalenko said on Facebook.
Source(s): Reuters