Supplier tells people living in and around city that blackouts could last ‘a lot longer’ than previously planned
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Ukrainians living in and around Kyiv have been told of a “sharp deterioration” in the region’s electricity supply after a fresh wave of Russian strikes aimed at sapping public morale as the country’s cold winter approaches.
A local energy supplier, Yasno, warned that existing blackouts could last “a lot longer” than a previously planned schedule of four-hour outages and that the capital already faced an electricity deficit of about 30% or more.