Overview
- Overnight attacks on Jan. 16–17 hit energy sites in Odesa and Kyiv oblasts, triggering emergency outages that left about 56,000 families without power in Bucha district and roughly 16,000 customers offline in Odesa.
- President Volodymyr Zelensky held an emergency energy coordination call, naming Kyiv, Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia as the toughest areas and ordering an immediate boost in electricity imports and partner equipment.
- Kyiv has roughly half the electricity it needs, and high‑rises without heating have dropped to about 50 from some 6,000 after the Jan. 9 strike as repair crews work around the clock.
- Authorities eased curfew rules so residents can reach heating hubs, expanded resilience centers to more than 1,300 in the capital with 50 mobile kitchens, and connected 24 high‑power generators that restored 17 substations on Kyiv’s left bank.
- Ukraine’s system can currently produce about 11 GW against demand of 18 GW, import capacity is limited to about 2.3 GW, fuel reserves exceed 20 days, and allies have announced support including £20 million from the U.K. and €60 million from Germany.