Emergency power cuts will be introduced in Kyiv and seven other regions

National Power Company Ukrenergo made the announcement on Telegram.

Ukrenergo wrote that Kyiv, Chernihiv, Cherkasy, Zhytomyr, Sumy, Kharkiv, Poltava regions and the capital of Ukraine suffered the greatest damage as a result of Russian shelling of Ukrainian energy infrastructure.

To avoid a crisis, the heat and power authorities make a decision to apply emergency measures.

"From 6:00 a.m. until the end of the day, schedules of planned energy restrictions will be put into effect. In addition, regional authorities can carry out emergency restrictions of energy consumption, applying schedules of emergency shutdowns. Such measures are necessary to avoid shortages and prevent overloading of high-voltage infrastructure," Ukrenergo claims.

The energy company also emphasized that when the threat of grid overload passes, hourly shutdown schedules will continue to operate instead of emergency shutdowns.

"These are the reasons why electricity may go out at times other than those scheduled by the energy companies in your area, and outages may last longer than stated," the national energy company adds.

• As of August 8, 2022, the cost of documented damage to Ukrainian infrastructure following a full-scale Russian invasion amounts to USD 110.4 billion, and the cost of rebuilding has risen to USD 188 billion.

• On October 21, the head of the Energy Research Center Oleksandr Kharchenko said that the Russian attack on the infrastructure of Ukraine is the largest in the history of mankind, and that it was prepared by the Russian energy industry experts.