Overview
- Ukrainian officials said Monday that morning Russian strikes caused power outages for consumers in Vinnytsia, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Odesa, Kirovohrad, Rivne, Cherkasy and Kharkiv oblasts.
- Kyiv and Dnipropetrovsk faced the most severe supply disruptions and some regions are on emergency rolling outages to protect transmission lines and key substations.
- Ukrenergo asked households to cut use of high‑power appliances during peak hours from 16:00 to 22:00 and to follow local distribution operators for updated blackout schedules.
- Monday morning electricity use was about 1.6% lower than on Friday 30 October, and authorities say repair crews are working while urgent contracts are being fast‑tracked to buy transformers and generators.
- The strikes form part of a sharp escalation in attacks on Ukraine's energy and oil and gas sector, with reporting that there were 94 hits between Oct. 26 and Nov. 1, raising concerns about services such as water, transport and winter resilience.