“In addition to Rivne region, Ternopil region and Khmelnytskyi region, six Ukrainian regions were partially cut off.”, — write: www.unian.ua
In addition to Rivne region, Ternopil region and Khmelnytskyi region, six Ukrainian regions were partially cut off.
Emergency recovery works will be started as soon as the security situation allows” / collage UNIAN, photo UNIANRussian troops massively attacked Ukraine’s energy system for the ninth time since the beginning of 2025, almost completely leaving three regions without electricity.
Acting Minister of Energy of Ukraine Artem Nekrasov announced this at a briefing.
“As of this morning, consumers in the Rivne, Ternopil, and Khmelnytskyi regions are almost completely without power,” the Acting Minister noted.
He added that Russian drones and missiles also partially left the population without electricity in Vinnytsia, Chernihiv, and Zhytomyr regions, as well as in Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, and Kharkiv regions
“Emergency recovery works will be started as soon as the security situation allows,” Nekrasov emphasized.
The Acting Minister also informed that the liquidation of several consecutive massive attacks on the region’s energy infrastructure is underway in Odesa. According to Nekrasov, due to the consequences of enemy shelling, a significant number of consumers in the region remain without electricity.
The attack of the Russian Federation on the energy system of Ukraine – the latest newsOn December 23, Russia once again massively attacked the energy system of Ukraine. According to the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyi, during today’s shelling, the Russian Federation used dozens of missiles and more than 650 drones. There are casualties as a result of the attack. Residential buildings, civilian private enterprises were damaged.
Previously, energy expert, director of energy programs of the Razumkov Center, Volodymyr Omelchenko, predicted that on average, Ukrainians will sit with outages in the amount of 2 to 4 shifts all winter.
According to his forecasts, it will be most difficult for consumers in the front-line and border regions and Kyiv, while there will be almost no outages in the western regions.
The situation in Odesa region is particularly difficult at the moment. According to Yury Korolchuk, an expert at the Institute of Energy Strategies, the Odesa region was one step away from a permanent “semi-blackout” due to enemy shelling.
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