Over 60 world-famous locations turn off their lights on longest night in solidarity with Ukraine

On the longest night of 2022, more than 60 of the world's most popular locations turned off their lights as a sign of solidarity with Ukraine and called on their visitors to join a fundraising campaign for generators for Ukrainian hospitals.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said this in a post on the messaging app Telegram, Ukrinform reports.

"When the light goes out, it is always seen as something unusual. But when you spend four, ten, 20 hours or even days without it and you start getting used to the darkness, that's the worst thing that can happen," Zelensky said.

According to him, "this means that light is not the only thing they want to take away, it is an encroachment on every part of life." Zelensky said that this is how people in Ukraine live now, defending themselves from the enemy who came to destroy them.

"On the longest night of 2022, more than 60 of the world's most famous locations turned off their lights as a sign of solidarity with our country and called on their visitors to join a fundraiser for generators for Ukrainian hospitals," the president said.

He emphasized that such support is extremely important to Ukraine.

"I thank our true friends! I thank everyone who joins the campaign," Zelensky added.

Since October 10, Russia has been carrying out massive missile and drone attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure, leading to a significant shortage of power in the country's energy grid and planned and emergency power outages being applied to consumers.