Kyiv has received US construction equipment and generators to help bolster the city's energy infrastructure amid widespread power shortages across the country, CNN reports..

The mayor of the capital of Ukraine Vitali Klitschko said that Kyiv "

The USAID Energy Security Project has delivered four excavators and more than 130 generators to help Ukraine rebuild its energy infrastructure, Klitschko said on Telegram. All equipment was supplied free of charge.

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The new equipment will allow the authorities to "

Generators were sent to boiler houses, thermal power plants and heating points.

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Mayor Vitali Klitschko previously warned that in the event of new enemy strikes on the energy system of Ukraine in the capital, free buses will run on all land transport routes, and the metro will work as a shelter.