BBC Verify Live: Ukraine substation fire leaves city without power in freezing temperatures

Friday on BBC Verify Livepublished at 11:04 GMT

11:04 GMT

Lucy Gilder
BBC Verify senior journalist

Good morning and welcome to BBC Verify Live.

Today we’re verifying footage of the aftermath of what appears to be a overnight strike on an energy substation in the occupied city of Berdyansk, Ukraine, which has left it without power. It marks the latest in a series of power outages in the country – residents in Kyiv have been without heating as overnight temperatures have dropped to as low as -15C in recent weeks.

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