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This satellite image shows how Ukraine remains blacked out at night by the energy crisis caused by Russian missiles.
Winter in Ukraine began with power cuts in Kyiv and other regions due to attacks by the Russian army, which it marked as targets some of the main thermoelectric power plants from the neighboring country.
The president announced this Friday that six million (Ukraine has about 43 million inhabitants) had their electricity cut off.
On Wednesday of this week the number of people affected arrivedor to go around the 12 millions.
In the image above you can see illuminated large cities such as Moscow, the capital of Russia, or Minsk, in Belarus.
But in most of the Ukrainian territory the urban centers remain practically in the dark.
image source, Archyde.com
In the central part to the right of this image you can see a dark territory that corresponds to Ukraine.
Kyiv is one of the cities that is suffering the most power cuts, along with the suburbs near the capital and the regions of Odesa, Lviv, Vinnytsia and Dnipropetrovsk.
Although the outages are often scheduled for several hours a day, they sometimes occur without prior notice and in Kyivv many residents were without power for intervals of up to 20 and 30 hours.
A large part of the inhabitants of the capital use gas central heating, but those who do not have this system and depend on electricity for heating are suffering especially from the cold of the winter that has just begun, with average temperatures of about zero degrees which at night turn negative.
Zelensky asked the population to save electricity as much as possible to deal with this energy crisis.
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