Electricity was returned to most oblasts of Ukraine – Office of the President

What happened? Power engineers have partially or completely restored electricity supply to most oblasts of Ukraine.

Source. Kyrylo Tymoshenko, the Deputy Head of the Office of the President.

Details. According to him, consumers of Odesa, Zaporizhzhia, Chernivtsi, Chernihiv, Volyn, Kyiv, Rivne, Cherkasy, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ternopil, Khmelnytsky, Kharkiv, Mykolaiv, and Dnipropetrovsk oblasts, as well as the city of Kyiv have been provided with electricity.

As of 09:00 on Thursday, he adds, there are 3720 so-called “points of invincibility” in the country – places where there is heat, water, electricity, mobile communication, Internet, places for rest, first aid kits, and appropriate provision for mothers and children. These points operate at all oblast and district administrations, schools, SES buildings, etc.

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Energy Minister of Ukraine Herman Halushchenko said during a national TV marathon that at 4 a.m. on Thursday morning they had managed to unite the country's energy system into a single whole, as it had been actually disconnected since Wednesday due to the attack. “Yesterday there was a blackout in our power system as a result of the attack that had been launched. At 4 a.m. we managed to unite it, now it (the power system – Mind ed.) works as a single one,” he said.

Mr. Halushchenko also said that the Rivne, South Ukraine and Khmelnytsky NPPs, which had been shut down yesterday, were expected to be able to supply electricity to the grid again by the end of the present day.

At this point, the critical infrastructure facilities of Ukraine have been re-energised, he stated.