Ukraine live briefing: Zelensky urges power rationing; Ukraine’s security service raids Kyiv monastery
The damage from Russian strikes on Ukrainian energy facilities is so severe that President Volodymyr Zelensky is urging residents and businesses to restrict their electricity use, even as temperatures drop. Conditions in the country at the onset of winter are grim, with the head of a major power provider warning of blackouts until at least the end of March.
Here’s the latest on the war and its ripple effects across the globe.
4. From our correspondents
In Kherson city, sympathies for Russia complicate reintegration into Ukraine: About a week after the last Russian soldier fled across the Dnieper River, the mood in Kherson remained largely celebratory. Hundreds still gathered each day in the central square to hug soldiers. Electrical power was mostly still out, but businesses were coming back to life. Russian propaganda billboards were being torn down, and Ukrainian ones were going up.
But in institutions across this regional capital, including the city council, hospitals and schools, newly restored leaders like Maryna Ivanovka, a college administrator, are facing a double conundrum. How to rebuild without the thousands of Russia sympathizers who fled? And even more vexing, what to do with those who remain? Thousands in the city held an ambivalence toward the Russians, or even an affinity, The Post’s Michael E. Miller and Samantha Schmidt write.