The Russian-installed administration in Ukraine’s Kherson region has claimed that Kherson city lost water and power supplies after what it called an act of “sabotage”, reports Aljazeera.
In a statement on social platform Telegram, the Russian administration of Kherson claimed a “terrorist attack” damaged three power lines in the region.
It also claimed that the attack had been carried out by Ukrainian forces, though it provided no evidence of the claim.
The outages are a “result of an attack organised by the Ukrainian side on the Berislav-Kakhovka highway that saw three concrete poles of high-voltage power lines damaged,” it added.
It is the first time that Kherson – which fell to Russian forces within days of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in February – has seen such a power cut.
Kherson is one of four regions that Russian President Vladimir Putin illegally annexed last month.
Russian state-owned news agency TASS quoted that Kherson’s Moscow-appointed governor Vladimir Saldo as saying that there were plans for the city’s power supply to be restored by the end of the day.
Energy specialists were working to “quickly” resolve the issue, the Russian-backed authorities said as they called on people to “remain calm”.
Bd-pratidin English/Tanvir Raihan
