Cannot permit Putin to steal our Christmas, says Kyiv mayor amid energy blackouts

Even as tens of millions of residents undergo via blackouts attributable to Russian assaults in Kyiv, Mayor Vitali Klitschko mentioned ‘We can not permit Putin to steal our Christmas’.

Kyiv ,UPDATED: Nov 29, 2022 15:22 IST

Kyiv decides to have fun energy-responsible Christmas

By Reuters: Kyiv plans to erect Christmas bushes, minus lights, all through the battered metropolis in a defiant show of vacation spirit because the capital space’s tens of millions of residents undergo via blackouts attributable to Russian assaults, officers mentioned.

“No one is going to cancel the New Year and Christmas, and the atmosphere of the New Year should be there,” Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko advised the RBC-Ukraine information company in an interview. “We cannot allow Putin to steal our Christmas.”

Sergey Kovalenko, chief government officer of YASNO, which offers energy to Kyiv, mentioned on his Facebook web page that to avoid wasting electrical energy, the bushes shall be with out illumination and garlands.

“There will be the New Year’s-Christmas tree, and it will be the most energy-responsible, but still festive for all of us,” Kovalenko mentioned.

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Klitschko mentioned that there shall be no mass gatherings or concert events – a practice to welcome the New Year. The metropolis’s companies will sponsor bushes all through Kyiv, together with the Sophia Square within the Old Kyiv neighbourhood.

“Christmas trees will be installed especially to remind our children of the New Year’s mood,” Klitschko mentioned. “You know, I don’t want to take Santa Claus away from the children.”

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Russia has been finishing up huge missile bombardments on Ukraine’s power infrastructure roughly weekly since early October, with every barrage having a larger influence than the final as injury accumulates and a frigid winter units in.

Snow has been falling in Kyiv, a metropolis that had 2.8 million residents earlier than the conflict, as individuals struggled with disruptions to electrical energy provide and central heating.

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Nov 29, 2022