More shelling in Kherson as Ukraine gradually restores power

Ukrainian officials said Russia continued to bombard Kherson on Friday and that at least 10 people were killed in the previous day’s attacks.

As Kherson was picking up the pieces from the continuing shelling on Friday, Ukraine gradually restored power to millions of people left in the dark after devastating Russian air attacks.

The country’s four nuclear power plants were reconnected to the national grid after completely losing off-site power earlier this week, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Friday.

In a statement, the IAEA nuclear watchdog said Ukraine had informed it on Friday that its Rivne, South Ukraine and Khmelnytskyi plants had been reconnected.

Ukraine reconnected its vast Zaporizhzhia plant on Thursday, Kyiv said earlier.

Ukrainian national power grid operator Ukrenergo said that as of 7pm local time (17:00 GMT), 30 percent of electricity supplies were still out and asked people to cut back on their energy use.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy went to the town of Vyshhorod just north of Kyiv on Friday to look at a four-storey building damaged by a Russian attack.

Amid the Russian attacks, Ukraine had established thousands of so-called “invincibility centres” where people can access heat, water, internet and mobile phone links.

“Please pay attention – the people of Kyiv need more support … a lot of (them) have been without power for 20 or even 30 hours.