Kyiv Planning for Total Evacuation if It Loses Electricity
NY Times ^ | November 5, 2022 | Marc Santora and Ben HubbardPosted on 11/5/2022, 7:58:03 PM by McGruff
As they struggle to maintain an electricity grid heavily damaged by Russian missiles, officials in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, say they have begun planning for a once unthinkable possibility: a complete blackout that would require the evacuation of the city’s approximately three million remaining residents.
The situation is already so dire, with 40 percent of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure damaged or destroyed, that municipal workers are setting up 1,000 heating shelters that can double as bunkers while engineers try to fix bombed-out power stations without the needed equipment.
To try to keep the grid from failing altogether, Ukraine’s national energy utility said on Saturday that it would continue to impose rolling blackouts in seven regions.
I’m sure you were just excited as could be when the statue of Lenin got put back up by Moscow officials in a Ukraine city they currently control.