Russian strike on Kherson leaves 45,000 people without electricity

Russians hit the energy sector in Kherson on 1 April, photo: Getty Images, illustrative

On the morning of 1 April, the Russian army attacked a power facility in Kherson, leaving 45,000 residents without electricity.

This was reported by the head of the Kherson city military administration Roman Mrochko and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Andrii Sybiha, quoted by «Interfax».

Roman Mrochko did not specify the cause of the power outage, but Andrii Sybiha confirmed at a press conference with his Lithuanian counterpart Kęstusis Budrys that the Russian strike had damaged one of the city's energy facilities.

«After Riyadh, one of the agreements with the United States was not to strike energy infrastructure. However, Russia continues to violate this agreement. It has already damaged energy facilities in Kherson, Kharkiv and Poltava. And this morning, another Russian strike left 45,000 Kherson residents without electricity,» he stressed.

According to Oleksandr Prokudin, Head of Kherson Regional State Administration, part of Korabelnyi and Tsentralnyi districts of the city was left without power supply. As a result, electric transport was temporarily suspended, but it was restored in a few hours.

«Power engineers have already started connecting customers to the grid,» he wrote later.

Earlier, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that one order from the Russian president not to attack the energy sector was not enough. Ukraine will prepare a list of energy, infrastructure and civilian facilities that Russia should stop striking.