Preparations have begun in Kyiv for a "total evacuation" of residents of the Ukrainian capital, Report informs citing The New York Times.
Officials in the Ukrainian capital say they have begun planning for a once-unthinkable possibility: a total power outage that will require the evacuation of the city's estimated three million residents.
The newspaper emphasizes that in an attempt to prevent a complete failure in the power grid, the national energy company of Ukraine said it would continue to introduce rolling blackouts in seven regions.
According to the director of the department of municipal security of the Kyiv city administration Roman Tkachuk, Kyiv may lose the entire city power supply system.
He added that Kyiv officials will be notified 12 hours before the system goes down, and if this happens, the city authorities will begin to inform local residents and ask them to leave.