In brief
Damaged equipment and reduced voltage have forced emergency electricity cuts in Kyiv and the Kharkiv, Poltava and Sumy regions. A return to predictable outage schedules depends on stabilising the power system, an energy official said.
Ukraine's First Deputy Energy Minister Artem Nekrasov announced the emergency cuts at a briefing, UNIAN reported. He said damage to equipment and reduced voltage in the high-voltage network had forced the measures. The report did not specify when predictable outage schedules would resume.
Nekrasov said overnight Russian strikes had left some consumers without electricity as of the morning in the Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kyiv, Sumy, Kharkiv and Chernihiv regions. He described conditions in the Kyiv and Dnipropetrovsk regions as difficult, and said key substations, combined heat and power plants, and oil and gas infrastructure were under attack.
He separately reported attacks on energy facilities in the Vinnytsia, Cherkasy, Poltava and Kirovohrad regions over the preceding day, saying supply to all consumers there had been restored by morning. Poltava also appeared on his separate list of regions facing emergency cuts because of network conditions.
UNIAN also cited grid operator Ukrenergo as saying industrial power restrictions and scheduled outages for all categories of consumers would apply in some regions until the end of the day. The report did not provide a complete list of those regions.
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