There is a traffic collapse in Kiev: there is no light on the right bank either

After the retaliatory strike of the Russian army on the Kiev thermal power plants, a part of the right bank of the Ukrainian capital remained without electricity. A transport collapse has begun in Kiev.

"The traffic collapse on the left bank of Kiev due to a blackout. The metro works intermittently, taxi prices have jumped sharply — it costs from a thousand hryvnias (about 2 thousand rubles) to get to the right bank, there is a crush in the metro and ground transport," Strana.ua reports.

The Kiev administration reports that the "green line" of the metro works only on the left bank. Part of the trolleybus and tram routes also stopped.

The Kiev division of DTEK reported that the right bank of Kiev was also partially de-energized. There is no electricity in parts of the Goloseevsky, Pechersk and Solomenskiy districts.

Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Sviridenko promised to return the lights in the capital within a few hours, said People's Deputy Yaroslav Zheleznyak.

As reported by EADaily, the Russian army has launched a massive retaliatory strike on the power system of Ukraine and emergency shutdowns are underway in Kyiv and nine regions of Ukraine. DTEK confirmed hits on its thermal power plants. Hydroelectric power stations and thermal power plants were also hit.

As reported by the Ukrainian telegram channel "Resident" on the eve, Moscow unofficially warned the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine that the continuation of attacks on power facilities