“The day before, the Ministry of Energy stated that due to Russian attacks in Kyiv and the region, it is impossible to predict the transition to hourly schedules”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
“There were questions in Kyiv about schedules on the right and left banks… We have schedules: 5 hours with light and 5 hours without light – on the right bank: Shevchenkivskyi, Podilskyi, partially Solomyanskyi, Holosiivskyi, Pecherskyi; schedule 3-4 hours with light, 9-10 hours without light – mainly the left bank, Dnipro, Darnytskyi, Desnyanskyi districts, partially Shevchenkivskyi and Obolonskyi districts – on the right bank,” said Svyridenko during a meeting of the Verkhovna Rada on January 14.
The Prime Minister noted that she will not tell which substations are being restored for security reasons.
The day before, the Ministry of Energy stated that due to the Russian attacks in Kyiv and the region, it is impossible to predict the transition to hourly schedules.
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Earlier today, Ukrenergo reported that due to the difficult situation in the power system in Kyiv and Kyiv Oblast, Odesa, Kharkiv, Sumy, and Poltava Oblasts due to previous Russian shelling, emergency blackouts are being applied.
Recently, a particularly difficult situation with energy supply has developed on the left bank of Kyiv and nearby areas of Kyiv region, where emergency shutdowns continue after the Russian attack on January 9, and the usual schedule can look like this – four hours with light, 12 hours without electricity. The mayor of Kyiv reported that this Russian attack was the most painful for the city’s critical infrastructure. According to the Ministry of Energy, on the morning of January 9, more than 500,000 consumers were cut off in Kyiv and the Kyiv region.
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, Russian forces have intensified their attacks on the Ukrainian energy industry. According to the Ministry of Energy, as of December 12, the Russian military has attacked Ukraine’s energy infrastructure 4,500 times since the beginning of 2025.