The Ukrainian government called on its citizens to reduce the use of electricity during the afternoon hours, after the Russian missile strikes that stopped the work of the main power station near the capital, Kyiv.

Officials said electricity was back in operation in Ukraine shortly after Russian missile strikes on energy facilities and infrastructure.

But the Ukrainian National Energy Corporation, still requires users to rationalize electricity consumption, between five in the evening and eleven before midnight, and warned of the possibility of repeated power outages.

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Kirlo Tomichenko, deputy director of the Ukrainian president's office, said residents of the cities of Zhytomyr and Chernihiv should also rationalize their use of electricity.

He added on his account on Telegram: "If you ignore these instructions, we will face difficult times, and we will have to use candles."

The Ukrainian energy company "Ukrinergo" urged citizens to rationalize energy consumption by not using lights during the day, avoiding the use of appliances that consume a lot of energy, and using washing machines only at night times.

Despite these instructions, the BBC's Paul Adams says the streets of Kyiv are darker than usual at night.

This comes at a time when fierce battles continue north of Kherson, which is controlled by the Russians.

Kirill Strimosov, the mayor of Kherson, who was appointed by the Russian authorities, said that the Ukrainian bombing was targeting the city from the positions of Ukrainian forces on the other bank of the Dnipro River.

There were reports that the advancing Ukrainian forces bombed the bridges on the river, with the aim of isolating the Russian forces inside the southern city of Kherson.

The city's leaders, appointed by Russia, backed by Moscow, are demanding that the families be moved out of Kherson via an air bridge, due to the intense Ukrainian raids on the city.

Russian President Vladimir Putin had declared Kherson, and three other Ukrainian cities, part of the Russian territory, which neither Ukraine nor the West recognized after the referendum, which was described as "fake", which Russia believes entitles it to annex these cities to the Russian Federation. its lands.

At the same time, Ukrainian prosecutors accused the soldiers of the Russian forces of killing one of the directors of the Kherson Theater, after he was shot in his home.

The Ukrainian media is circulating the news of the killing of Yuri Kirpatenko, who was shot dead in his home, without providing further details, except for what is said about his refusal to cooperate with the Russian occupation authorities.