Russia’s Strikes Leave About 400,000 Ukrainians Without Power Each Day – Ukraine’s Energy Ministry
Russian attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure are cutting electricity to an average of around 400,000 consumers every day, mainly in frontline and border regions.
The Gaze informs about it, referring to a statement made by Ukraine’s Energy Ministry.
Speaking at a briefing, Acting Energy Minister Artem Nekrasov said the scale of outages fluctuates daily depending on the intensity of Russian strikes, which continue to target power plants as well as electricity transmission and distribution facilities.
Overnight attacks again hit infrastructure in the Dnipropetrovsk region, but repair crews had restored power to all affected consumers by the morning. In contrast, recovery efforts are still under way in the Odesa region, where about 32,000 households and businesses remain without electricity following heavy strikes on December 13–14.
Despite ongoing attacks, energy workers have managed to stabilize parts of the system. Since the mid-December assaults on southern Ukraine, electricity has been restored to more than 550,000 consumers in Odesa region, the ministry said.
Nekrasov warned that repeated strikes are slowing repairs and increasing pressure on the grid, though round-the-clock restoration work is helping keep the system under control. In areas subject to scheduled outages, authorities urged residents and businesses to conserve electricity, limit the use of high-consumption appliances, and shift energy-intensive activities to nighttime hours.
To ease shortages, an interagency task force operating under the Energy Ministry has freed up at least 800 megawatts of additional capacity, a move officials say should shorten blackout schedules for households and industry.
Ukraine’s energy system has been under sustained Russian attack since the start of the full-scale invasion, with intensified strikes in recent weeks again testing the resilience of critical infrastructure.
As The Gaze previously reported, on November 20, due to nighttime attacks on the power grid, several Ukrainian nuclear power plants were forced to temporarily reduce their output.
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