Occupied Enerhodar, the satellite city of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, has had no water and electricity for three days. Thus people have not been able to cook food, exiled mayor Dmytro Orlov has said on Telegram.
"Now the situation with drinking water is getting worse. Especially for those citizens who did not have time to make stocks or have already used them," Orlov said.
The mayor urged residents to be extremely careful when collecting dry branches for fire because the occupiers could have mined parks and forests.
According to him, Russian troops have closed the entrance to the city for humanitarian goods.
"We are ready to organize the prompt delivery and distribution of drinking water in Enerhodar, which is now extremely necessary. But for a long time the occupiers have prevented any humanitarian cargo from the territories controlled by Ukraine from entering the town," the mayor added.
There were reports of heavy Russian shelling on 7 October, which caused a sudden power outage in the city. On 8 October, Orlov said that efforts to restore communication, electricity and water supply had begun in occupied Enerhodar.