Electricity is struggling to return to Ukraine.
More than six million homes were still affected by power cuts on Friday evening, two days after massive Russian strikes, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
"Tonight, cuts continue in most regions and in kyiv," said the head of state.
Kyiv - with some 600,000 homes without power on Friday evening - and its region, as well as the provinces of Odessa, Lviv, Vinnytsia and Dnipropetrovsk, are the most affected by power cuts, a added Volodymyr Zelensky in his daily address, calling on Ukrainians to save electricity in areas where power has been restored.
Engineers continued to repair the damage across the country.
In the capital, “a third of kyiv's homes already have heating, specialists continue to restore it.
Half of the users are still without electricity,” said its mayor, Vitali Klitschko.
“During the day, the energy companies plan to connect electricity for all users alternately,” assured Vitali Klitschko, at a time when temperatures were around zero degrees and rain was part of it.
Russia blames Ukraine
Queues of cars waiting to refuel formed in front of several Kyiv gas stations and the operation of mobile phone networks was still disrupted in some neighborhoods.
Russia, for its part, claims to only target military infrastructure and has blamed the power cuts on the Ukrainian anti-aircraft defense.
The Kremlin assured that Ukraine could end the suffering of its people by accepting Russian demands.
