Overview
- An emergency shutdown of electricity stopped major municipal pumping stations and several large boiler plants, according to city administrator Alexander Vilkul.
- Water pressure will drop across the system, with the sharpest impact expected on upper floors of residential buildings.
- Several big boiler houses were taken offline and their restart is estimated to take about two hours.
- Crews are transferring pumps to backup generators to keep essential water services running during the outage response.
- The update was issued by the Kryvyi Rih military administration through Vilkul’s Telegram channel.