Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy ordered the government and law enforcement agencies to propose steps to secure full cooperation from utility companies falling behind on repairs, he said in a post on X.
He set a deadline of day’s end after a coordination call on restoring power following Russian strikes, which he said now come almost every day. Crews are working around the clock, he wrote.
Kyiv Faces Long Outages
In Kyiv, people and businesses were left without electricity and water for hours at a time, according to the president. Kyiv was a particular concern in his account.
His regional rundown covered Kyiv, Zhytomyr, Chernihiv, Sumy, Poltava, Kharkiv, Cherkasy and Vinnytsia. Zelenskyy described additional difficulties from fighting in Donetsk, while the south had both rolling blackouts and emergency power cuts.
Repeated strikes and constant air raid alerts are making repairs take much longer, he wrote. Ukraine has built up reserves of needed equipment. Agreements with partners on new energy support packages are already in place to replenish them, according to Zelenskyy.
Pressure on Companies
Government agencies, regional and local authorities, and every supplier of electricity, heat and water must work as quickly and thoroughly as possible nationwide, Zelenskyy said. That applies “regardless of the ownership structure of these companies,” he wrote.
His post did not name the companies he considered behind on repairs or describe the measures under consideration.
Zelenskyy thanked repair crews, energy companies and specialists from the State Emergency Service of Ukraine. The command of Ukraine’s armed forces also gave him a separate report on electronic warfare operations. He said the necessary steps had been determined but gave no details.
Strikes Reported in Crimea
The General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces said its forces hit two Russian Pantsir air defense missile-gun systems in occupied Crimea on Nov. 3 and overnight into Nov. 4. One was identified as a Pantsir-S2.
The strikes also hit a Russian fire group in Crimea, a drone control post near Vladivka in the Zaporizhzhia region and a supply depot near Bilovodsk in the Luhansk region, the General Staff said.
Pantsir systems guard Russian facilities in Crimea and southern Russia against Ukrainian drones and missiles, according to the military, which did not give the extent of the damage. Virginia Times could not independently verify the battlefield claims.
The General Staff also reported that assessments of an Oct. 26 strike showed a storage building had been destroyed at a Russian missile and artillery weapons depot near Ohorodne in the Donetsk region.
It said operations against key Russian military targets would continue until Russia’s armed aggression against Ukraine ends completely.
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