War in Ukraine: kyiv mayor does not rule out partial evacuation of the city if Russian bombing continues

Ukraine warned today of another complicated week before the preparation by Russia of new attacks after seven waves of bombardments against the country’s energy infrastructure, while the mayor of kyiv does not rule out a partial evacuation of the capital if the bombardments continue.

“We know that the terrorists are preparing new attacks. We know for sure. And as long as they have missiles, unfortunately they won’t stop.” stressed the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky.

UKRAINE ON ALERT AGAINST POSSIBLE NEW ATTACK

Zelensky He pointed out that this week “can be as hard as the last one”, and assured that “the entire State is preparing.”

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The president was referring to a Possible eighth large-scale attack on energy infrastructure after last, which caused massive power and water outages on Wednesday in much of the country when temperatures are already below zero degrees.

The argument of kyiv it is reinforced by the detection of a Russian missile carrier in the Black Sea.

The spokeswoman for the Southern Command of the Ukrainian Armed ForcesNataliya Humenyuk, said today that “for the first time in several days a missile carrier appeared in the Black Sea on combat duty with eight Kalibr missiles on board.”

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“This suggests that preparations are underway” for an attack, he said.

The foreign ministers of Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden traveled to kyiv today to study how to continue supporting Ukraine and show their confidence that this country, “despite the rain of bombs”, will win. as tweeted the head of Latvian diplomacy, Edgars Rinkevics.

The scale and complexity of the damage caused by the successive Russian bombardments of the energy system -affected before the last bombardment by 50% and with damages of almost 2,000 million dollars, according to the Prime Minister, Denys Shmyhal-, it is very large.

The national energy company, Ukrenergo, estimated this Monday the capacity deficit in the Ukrainian network still at 27%, and announced unforeseen blackouts throughout Ukraine.

THE MAYOR OF kyiv DOES NOT RULE OUT A RELOCATION OF CITIZENS

The mayor of kyivVitali Klitschkó, ​​warned today in an interview with the RBC-Ukraine media that there may be power cuts “until spring”.

The authority assured that it plans measures with all scenarios in mind, so He did not rule out “the worst” possible, an evacuation.

“There will not be a total evacuation, but perhaps a partial one,” in what he called “a relocation of people of certain categories to the suburbs where services are available.”

The Ukrainian Presidency accelerates to the maximum the winter preparationsand so far more than 4,300 basic or “invincibility” service points have been installed in the country, with stoves, generators, plugs to charge mobile phones and computers, water, hot drinks, internet and small play areas for children. .

Precisely the creation of these points has generated tensions between Zelensky and the mayor of kyivVitali Klitschkó, ​​after the head of state said on Friday that in kyiv there are “many complaints” about its operation.

He called on the mayor to be “more serious” in his work when many Kievites were still without electricity for more than 20 or 30 hours, and even went so far as to accuse Klitschkó of “lying” about the state of the installed centers.

TENSIONS BETWEEN THE PRESIDENT AND THE MAYOR

The controversy was served, especially due to the unusualness of criticism after nine months in which politicians had shown unity against Russia regardless of their ideologies.

The mayorwho founded in 2010 the Democratic Alliance for Reforms of Ukraineremained silent until Sunday afternoon, when he assured that more than 430 heating points have been created in the capital -with more than 3 million inhabitants- and the rapid deployment of more than 100 in case of emergency is being prepared.

“I don’t want, especially in the current situation, to get into political battles”, he emphasized.

The head of the parliamentary fraction of the ruling Servant of the People party, David Arakhamia, Zelensky’s most trusted party, gave Klitschkó a week on Sunday to correct “the mistakes.” It is not the first time that Zelensky has faced Klitschko. In September 2019, he wanted to dismiss the mayor from his second position, that of head of the kyiv City State Administration.

Unlike the post of mayor, which is elected by the citizens, the post of head of the City State Administration is decided by the President of Ukraine, in the case of Klitschkó the predecessor of ZelenskyPetro Poroshenko.

The former professional boxer, who entered politics in 2012, described the president’s gesture as illegal and undemocratic, who finally desisted from ousting Klitschkó from the State Administration.

Source: Elcomercio

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