““As of now, three shifts of hourly outage schedules are operating throughout the country. We are working on reducing their duration,” the Prime Minister said”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
She wrote about it on social networks on December 9 after a meeting with the participation of Deputy Prime Minister Oleksiy Kuleba, acting Minister of Energy Artem Nekrasov, Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Viktor Mykyta and Chairman of Ukrenergo Vitaly Zaichenko.
“I heard reports about the state of repair of damaged objects after the recent enemy shelling. Coordinated further steps to restore the power system. There are currently three rounds of hourly outage schedules operating throughout the country. We are working on reducing their duration. We are preparing a series of government decisions to redistribute consumption and direct electricity to household consumers,” the Prime Minister said.
Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion in February 2022, Russia has been striking Ukraine’s energy infrastructure. Since the beginning of the fall of 2025, the Russian military has increased its shelling of the Ukrainian energy and gas infrastructure, which supplies people with gas during the heating season.
As a result of the attacks, emergency power outages occur. In Ukraine, due to damage to energy facilities as a result of Russian shelling, hourly blackout schedules and capacity limitation schedules are used for industrial consumers and businesses.