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After significant Russian missile attacks this week, Ukraine claims that up to 50% of the country's electrical needs are not now being satisfied.

The Ukrenergo power operator stated that fixing important infrastructure should be done first, but repairs were now taking longer.

According to President Volodymyr Zelensky, 15 regions, including the capital Kyiv, had "the most severe condition" with regard to power and water supplies.

Winter is coming to Ukraine, bringing with it snow and extremely low temperatures.

There are worries that hypothermia could cause fatalities across the nation.

About 70% of Kyiv residents woke up without power on Thursday morning.

The worst-case scenario, according to Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko, could leave the city without heat, electricity, or water.

However, later in the day, the Ukrainian government said that water and electricity were progressively being restored throughout the country.

"Water is trickling slowly. there is no power yet, "A resident of Kyiv named Roman told the BBC on Thursday at 15:00 local time (12:00 GMT). "Finally, they [the authorities] have provided energy - after more than 24 hours," he remarked a few hours later.

Another Kyivan named Tonya told the BBC late on Thursday night that she had gone 48 hours without electricity.

"Today, I also have a shaky connection and water. yet there is still no heat or electricity "She spoke.

The Ukrainian government claims to have erected more than 4,000 "points of invincibility" throughout the nation, which are improvised heated tents where people can charge their phones and drink tea or coffee.

Russian forces "do not know how to fight," President Zelensky claimed in a late-night televised speech on Thursday.

"They are only left with the option of terrorising. Russia has only degenerated to using either energy terror, artillery terror, or missile terror under its current leaders "said he.

Iryna Vereshchuk, the deputy prime minister of Ukraine, stated the following to the BBC's World Tonight programme: "Russia's terrorist government has declared an energy war against us with the intention of triggering a severe humanitarian disaster. The most susceptible groups for us are the elderly, mothers with young children, and hospital patients."

"Because those are the winter months and days, and that is what Russia wants, our people must hold out for 120 days. It aims to cause our people the most suffering possible as they experience the winter."

According to Ms. Vereshchuk, the Ukrainian government has already begun voluntary evacuations even though some areas of Ukraine, including the southern city of Kherson, are still subject to daily bombing.

According to regional officials for Kherson, Russian artillery and rocket attacks on the city resulted in seven fatalities and 21 injuries.

Russia has always refuted Ukraine's and its Western allies' accusations that it committed war crimes by attacking vital civilian infrastructure.

According to Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin, Ukraine's authorities might alleviate "the pain of the local population" by agreeing to Russia's conditions for halting the conflict that Moscow began on February 24.

Mykhailo Podolyak, a presidential assistant for Ukraine, responded to this on Twitter by writing: "Calling for peace while launching missiles at peaceful cities - the highest degree of mental disorder."

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