On Monday evening, November 28, Kyiv rescuers received a report that a

woman was stuck in the elevator of an apartment building in the Sviatoshyn district - she had started giving birth.  

This was reported by the press service of the Main Directorate of the State Emergency Service in Kyiv.

"On November 28, at 6:42 p.m., the Operational Coordination Center of the Main Directorate of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in Kyiv received a report that in the elevator of a 9-story residential building, at 13 Simyrenko St., in the Svyatoshyn district of the capital, a pregnant woman who went into labor is stuck," the message reads.

A woman born in 1992 was in a blocked elevator between the 5th and 6th floors.

Specialists used a chance tool and opened the elevator door.

Then they got the woman and handed her over to medics.

The woman in labor was transported to the maternity hospital.

Emergency power outages

In Ukraine, emergency or

used due to network load as a result of Russian missile attacks on critical infrastructure facilities.

Citizens are urged not to use elevators if possible, because such outages last at least a couple of hours.

In addition, often during power outages, there is congestion in the network of mobile operators, which makes it difficult to make calls.

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