Ukraine’s Kyiv mayor rebuffs Zelenskyy criticism amid energy woes

Rescuers work at a site of a residential building destroyed by a Russian attack, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in the town of Vyshhorod, near Kyiv, Ukraine, on November 23, 2022 [Gleb Garanich/Reuters]

The energy deprivation facing Ukrainians has renewed tensions between Ukraine’s president and Kyiv’s mayor amid a looming power crisis and the winter period setting in.

Mayor Vitali Klitschko on Sunday defended himself against allegations levelled by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that too many Kyiv residents were still without power and that centres that had been set up for them to stock up on food, water, battery power and other essentials were insufficient