More than six million homes were affected by power outages in Ukraine on Friday, two days after Russia’s massive strikes on the country, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi said, AFP reports.

“Tonight (not on Friday) power outages continue in most oblasts and in Kyiv. In total, there are more than six million households,” Zelenskyi said in his daily address.

He added that Kyiv, in which about 600,000 homes were cut off during the evening, and its region, as well as Odesa (south), Lviv, Vinnytsia (west), and Dnipropetrovsk (center-east) regions, were the most affected by power outages. , urging Ukrainians to save electricity in areas where electricity has been restored.

Moscow’s strategy of bombing Ukrainian energy facilities, which has been implemented since October amid military setbacks, is “war crimes” for Ukraine’s Western allies and was described as a “crime against humanity” by President Zelensky, who visited Vychhorod, a city north of Kyiv, on Wednesday , where six people died and dozens were injured as a result of terrorist attacks.