Russian strikes cut power across Kyiv as Zelenskiy and mayor trade blame
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and the capital's mayor each blamed the other for the blackout after Russian strikes hit Kyiv, Reuters reports.
Russian strikes cut electricity across Kyiv, Reuters reported on 6 November, leaving Ukraine's capital without power and setting President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and the city's mayor against each other over who is to blame.
The agency did not report how many strikes landed, which facilities were hit, whether anyone was killed or injured, or how long the outage lasted. It did not quote either man directly.
Zelenskiy and the mayor each blamed the other for the blackout, according to Reuters. The report did not say what the dispute turned on, or whether it concerned the city's power grid, its air defences or the repair effort.
This newspaper could not independently confirm the extent of the damage. The Russian defence ministry made no comment in the Reuters account, and no statement from the Ukrainian presidency or the Kyiv city administration was available.
Kyiv is Ukraine's capital and largest city. Russia's full-scale invasion, launched in February 2022, has brought repeated attacks on Ukraine's electricity system, and blackouts have spread across the country in earlier winters.
How the reports differ
Only Reuters carried the Kyiv strikes, and what it filed was a headline and a summary line with no figure for the number of strikes, the damage or the casualties. The two other items gathered under this event were unrelated stories: Punch reported on a property demolition in Kebbi State, Nigeria, and Ahram Online reported a market attack in Yemen that killed 20 people. Neither had any bearing on the blackout in Kyiv.
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