Overview
- Overnight officials said electricity in Zaporizhzhia was fully restored in under seven hours, while Dnipropetrovsk still faces large-scale outages affecting about 800,000 customers.
- Dnipropetrovsk extended school holidays through 9 January, shifted Dnipro’s electric transport to buses, and is using generators to sustain heat and water during emergency repairs.
- Kryvyi Rih reported one of its largest combined attacks, eight people wounded, roughly 39,000 customers without power by midday, and several major boiler houses offline.
- The Zaporizhstal steel plant halted production after losing external power and is preparing a phased, safe restart once stable supply returns.
- Heavy snow and an Arctic cold snap caused additional outages in 83 settlements and truck restrictions on key highways, as the army reported 275 clashes on 7 January and dozens more today with intense Russian assaults toward Pokrovsk.