Overview
- Ukrenergo reported that all users in the government‑controlled part of Donetsk region lost power overnight, with emergency repairs underway and fresh outages in Dnipropetrovsk and Mykolaiv.
- DTEK said electricity has been restored to 184,500 customers in Odesa region and to nearly all critical infrastructure cut off by the December 13 strike, though repairs remain complex.
- Officials estimate about 430,000 consumers in the south, including Odesa, Mykolaiv and Kherson, still have no electricity as hourly outage schedules and system balancing measures continue.
- More than one million customers initially lost power after the December 13 attacks that deliberately hit distribution and transmission facilities, including Ukrenergo substations.
- Authorities have activated humanitarian support, with Odesa’s invincibility centres recording about 19,000 visits in a day and financial services sustained through the Power Banking network.