Overview
- Hourly rolling cuts are in place across all regions on January 21, with additional limits for industrial users and the scope subject to change.
- Ukrenergo earlier introduced emergency outages in several oblasts after reporting a difficult system situation linked to recent attacks, suspending published schedules.
- Power engineers are working to stabilize supply, and emergency measures will be lifted once conditions improve, according to the operator.
- The heaviest shortages persist in Kyiv city and the regions of Kyiv, Kharkiv, Sumy, Donetsk, Odesa, and Poltava, official reports say.
- A separate network accident on January 20 left parts of occupied Crimea without electricity, including Yevpatoriia and Dzhankoi, after prior overload warnings tied to a severe cold snap.