Chernihiv Mayor Vladyslav Atroshenko said that the city was on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe. There has been no heating, electricity and water, problems with food and medicine for several days. He said this in an interview with RBC-Ukraine.
According to the mayor, the city is almost entirely without electricity; there is no communication and heat, as airstrikes and artillery shelling have destroyed central heating systems. Indoor heating systems have also already thawed, so restoring heat supply has lost its meaning. In addition, the Russians have destroyed the city's combined heat and power system.
"Now the city is on the verge of a real humanitarian catastrophe. The city lacks food, medicine, dressings, painkillers, antiseptics, chlorine. We are at risk of an outbreak of intestinal diseases - it is impossible to comply with sanitation because the city has no water, neither cold nor hot because there is no electricity," Atroshenko said.
He also clarified that as of today, the armed forces of the aggressor country had destroyed almost all infrastructure facilities in Chernihiv, so it is difficult to estimate the damage.
Chernihiv is under constant occupiers' attacks. There has been no water, light or heat there for a week now. Yesterday, Russian troops fired on a queue for bread - 13 people were killed. The bodies of 53 people were taken to the city morgue in the last 24 hours.