“Previously, restrictions were planned from 07:00 to 20:00 – half a queue of shutdowns”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
Previously, restrictions were planned from 07:00 to 20:00 – half a queue of shutdowns.
At the same time, for industry and business, restrictions remain and will be in effect from 07:00 to 20:00.
“Ukrenergo” urges economical consumption of electricity from 08:00 to 20:00.
Today, December 17, shutdown schedules were not applied. In the morning, Ukrenergo reported that consumption, compared to the previous day, had decreased somewhat – as of 6:00 a.m. on December 17, its level was 2% lower than at this time of the previous day. This is explained by the increase in air temperature in most regions of Ukraine.
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According to the Ministry of Energy, since October 2022, Russia has carried out more than a thousand strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure facilities, this year alone 9 GW of generating capacity was lost due to strikes.
The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said that December 13 was one of the largest energy strikes – that was when the Russian Federation carried out the last massive missile attack.
According to the IAEA, due to this attack by the Russian Federation, five out of nine blocks of Ukrainian nuclear power plants reduced their power.
It was reported about the Russian attack on the objects of critical infrastructure in the Carpathian region and the Lviv region. In Ternopil Oblast, an industrial facility was damaged by a rocket strike, and a large-scale fire broke out.