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of course, the battle here for ukraine is reduce electricity usage while it tries to repair them and these big items are not that easy to repair if they re heavily damaged or even replaced. so that s the challenge at the moment. but president zelenskyy is now appealing to everyone in the country, asking them to do their bit, to save electricity, not use a high power equipment if they don t have to, turn off lights. this is how he s framing it. translator: the main target for russian terrorists is energy. therefore, please consume electricity even more consciously than before. the stability of our state energy industry depends on each city and district of ukraine. reporter: so the biggest cities like kyiv, like lviv in the west, odesa in the south have better air defense systems it seems because they re able to shoot down almost all the incoming missiles but other
enforcement benefit nearly a, where all of this stuff is coming from, we will stay on the story. thank you very much. that is all in for this week. the rachel maddow show starts right now with ali velshi filling in. good evening ali. i want to just say that you have been doing such an incredible job these last five weeks, and i am so personally grateful, and proud of you as a colleague to have you out there on the ground reporting. it has been phenomenal for all of us. thank you, thank you, thank you. phenomenal for all chris, i am really appreciative of that. as you, know you and i are most likely to run into each other in the halls. i am looking forward to seeing you in person. you have a great weekend, we will see you next week. and thank you to you at home for joining us this hour. i am coming to you one last time tonight from lviv, ukraine. rachel, as you know, we ll be back on monday. but it has been a particularly grim day in ukraine, and the end of a very grim week. the one bi
happened, and then you went to the station literally to bear witness. tell us what you heard, and what you saw when you went back after you heard the explosion. yes. thank you so much, ali. we were just a couple of minutes away at our warehouses, as you said, picking up flour to take to a bakery that was actually in the middle, preparing baked goods that we had planned to serve at the station later today, tomorrow, and in the coming days. this is something we have done in many cities around ukraine, to support families as they are either leaving a city in the, east and heading to the west, or arriving to a city like lviv. so just a couple of minutes away, we heard the booms happening. they shake your insides, you know. these are deep booms. you know something bad is happening. shortly thereafter, i have got a text saying the railway had been hit. so we headed over there, both to see with the situation was, to see if we could help, and also to see how this, how world
explosion. yes. thank you so much, ali. we were just a couple of minutes away at our warehouses, as you said, picking up flour to take to a bakery that was actually in the middle, preparing baked goods that we had planned to serve at the station later today, tomorrow, and in the coming days. this is something we have done in many cities around ukraine, to support families as they are either leaving a city in the, east and heading to the west, or arriving to a city like lviv. so just a couple of minutes away, we heard the booms happening. they shake your insides, you know. these are deep booms. you know something bad is happening. shortly thereafter, i have got a text saying the railway had been hit. so we headed over there, both to see with the situation was, to see if we could help, and also to see how this, how world central kitchen operation will be affected. we have been receiving a lot of food coming in by cargo wagon on the railway. the railways