“First Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Energy Denys Shmyhal announced that electricity supply, which was interrupted on January 31 in a number of regions of Ukraine due to an accident in the power system, is planned to be restored within the next few hours”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
“At this moment, the energy industry, together with Kyivvodokanal specialists, are working in an intensified mode in order to restore the power supply to the water supply and sewerage facilities as soon as possible and return water supply to the people of Kyiv,” the message says.
First Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Energy Denys Shmyhal announced that electricity supply, which was stopped on January 31 in a number of regions of Ukraine due to an accident in the power system, is planned to be restored within the next few hours.
“Today at 10:42 a.m. there was a technological violation with the simultaneous disconnection of the 400 kV line between the energy systems of Romania and Moldova and the 750 kV line between the western and central parts of Ukraine. What caused the cascading shutdown in the electricity network of Ukraine and the triggering of automatic protection at substations. Blocks of nuclear power plants were unloaded. Currently, the dispatcher has applied special schedules of emergency shutdowns in Kyiv, Kyiv, Zhytomyr, and Kharkiv regions,” Shmyhal wrote in a telegram.
According to him, “Ukrenergo” energy engineers are working on the restoration of electricity supply.
The press service of the Ministry of Energy noted that, according to experts’ forecasts, the power supply will return within the next 2-3 hours.
Before that, the DTEK company reported that, on the command of Ukrenergo, emergency power offs are being used in Kyiv, as well as in the Kyiv, Odesa, and Dnipropetrovsk regions.
“We would like to remind you that during emergency shutdowns, schedules do not work. In case of changes, we will promptly inform you in our Telegram channel,” the message reads.
The reason for the measures was not mentioned.
Kyiv authorities announced earlier today that the subway stopped in the capital of Ukraine due to an emergency shutdown.
The Ministry of Energy of Moldova reported that problems in the power grid of Ukraine on January 31 led to an emergency shutdown in the power system of Moldova.
Moldovan mass media write that there is no electricity in Chisinau and its suburbs, as well as in a number of other cities.
After the last massive attacks by the Russian Federation, the power system of Ukraine is under a state of emergency. In particular, the difficult situation remains in Kyiv, where several hundred high-rise buildings out of six thousand that were left without heating as a result of the Russian strike on January 24 (many of them again after previous shelling on January 9 and 20) are still without heat.
On January 29, US President Donald Trump said that he asked Russian leader Vladimir Putin not to attack Ukrainian cities for a week from an unspecified date, and he allegedly agreed. The Kremlin said they had agreed not to strike until February 1.