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Russia attacks energy infrastructure in 6 regions of Ukraine

Russia attacks energy infrastructure in 6 regions of Ukraine

Over the past day, due to shelling by the russian occupiers and military operations, there were power outages in the Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Sumy, Kharkiv and Kherson Regions.

The Ministry of Energy has said this in a statement, the Ukrainian News agency reports.

According to the report, in the Dnipropetrovsk Region, as a result of an attack by an unmanned aerial vehicle, a fire broke out on the territory of a substation, which led to the blackout of substations and household consumers.

In addition, due to ground fire caused by the shelling, an overhead line was cut off, which caused a drop in voltage and disrupted the movement of trains.

In the Zaporizhzhia Region, an overhead line was shut down as a result of wire breakage as a result of shelling.

As of the morning of Monday, September 23, 490 settlements in Ukraine were completely or partially cut off due to hostilities and other reasons.

In particular, for technical reasons, consumers in the Dnipropetrovsk Region and the Chernihiv Region were cut off.

Last day, the power industry restored power to 126,169 consumers who were cut off as a result of hostilities and technological violations.

As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, before the start of the full-scale armed invasion of the russian federation on February 24, 2022, Ukraine produced 44.1 GW of electricity.

At the same time, in the winter before the start of the war, electricity consumption was about 26 GW, and surplus electricity was exported.

The occupation of part of the Ukrainian territory by the russian federation led to a decrease in electricity production capacity by 18 GW.

Until the winter of 2023-2024, Ukraine was able to produce only about 17.8 GW of electricity per hour, while the peak winter consumption reached 18.5 GW per hour, this shortfall was settled by importing electricity.

At the same time, since the end of March 2024, due to russian shelling, Ukraine has lost more than 9 GW of generating capacity.