Overview
- Ukrenergo reports consumers left without electricity in Dnipropetrovsk, Zhytomyr, Kharkiv, and Donetsk after overnight attacks, with emergency outages applied in Kyiv city and region, Odesa, Kharkiv, Sumy, and Poltava.
- Acting Energy Minister Artyom Nekrasov says more than 40,000 households in Dnipropetrovsk were without power this morning and rolling blackout schedules remain in place across much of the country.
- Kyiv’s mayor calls the capital’s power and heating crisis the worst of the full‑scale war, noting residents now face about three hours with electricity and up to ten without as emergency cuts replace hourly schedules.
- Ukrainian air defenses engaged during another mass drone strike targeting the capital’s energy network, with officials reporting thousands of buildings without power after the third major raid in five days.
- The government says roughly 1 GW has been added to the grid, high‑power generators are being deployed in hard‑hit Kyiv districts, electricity imports are increasing, and conservation has lowered demand by about 5.4%.