“The systemic damage to our energy from strikes is so significant that all our people and businesses need to be very economical and distribute consumption by the hour,” RIA Novosti quotes him as saying.
Zelensky added that the most difficult energy situation has developed in Kyiv and the region, as well as in Vinnitsa, Sumy, Ternopil, Cherkasy and Odessa regions.
Earlier, Maxim Timchenko, CEO of the private Ukrainian energy company DTEK, urged citizens to leave the country in order to reduce the load on the energy system.