Power plants and substations are damaged by shelling, it takes several days to restore them 

The head of Ukrenergo National Power Company, Volodymyr Kudrytskyi announced this on the air of the national TV marathon.

According to Kudrytskyi, after more than 70 missiles were fired on December 5 and about 10 of them hit the target, significant damage was caused to both Ukrenergo's power plants and substations, but the situation is under control.

"There are certain restrictions on emergency power supplies... A shortage in the power system will be today or tomorrow (on Monday-Tuesday - ed.), while some power units that were emergency shut down during the attack today will gain power. It will take a day or two to restore electricity production in the system. After that, we expect the situation to stabilize.

It will be the whole Ukraine (with emergency shutdowns – ed.). We have regions that have suffered the most, in particular, the Odesa region. Now we supply voltage using backup power schemes to power the critical infrastructure of the city and at least partially supply electricity to citizens. We will also resolve this situation in the next couple of days.

In other regions the power supply is now being restored gradually. This process will continue this evening and night. Our repairmen will work on restoring the power system, substations and power lines," the head of Ukrenergo said.

Emergency shutdowns were applied throughout the country not to unbalance the system. Now they are gradually being replaced by consumption limits for each region.

On Tuesday, December 6, these limits will be similar to those 3-4 days ago, Kudrytskyi said.

The head of Ukrenergo believes that the Russians deliberately chose the time of peak frosts for the attack to "turn off the Ukrainian energy system" and cause maximum suffering to Ukrainians.

"Judging by the geography of arrivals, I do not doubt that Russian power engineers advised the military," Kudritskyi claimed.