Russian attacks on energy facilities in six Ukrainian regions left more than 500,000 people without electricity on October 23, prompting emergency outages in Kyiv and electricity limits elsewhere, Ukrainian officials said.
The Energy Ministry said the facilities hit were in the regions of Zhytomyr, Volyn, Mykolaiv, Poltava, Khmelnytskyi and Rivne. Ukrenergo reported new outages in eight regions, including Donetsk and Kharkiv. Emergency power cuts were in place in Kyiv and the surrounding region.
Some other areas introduced scheduled outages or limits on electricity use by businesses and industry to reduce pressure on the power grid. DTEK said a strike badly damaged equipment at one of its thermal power plants, which stopped generating electricity. DTEK did not identify the plant.
Repair crews began emergency work where conditions allowed. Teams in Odesa and Ternopil continued repairing damage from earlier attacks. The Energy Ministry said air-raid alerts and the risk of further strikes were making repairs more difficult.
The ministry gave no timetable for restoring all affected connections. The outages came as Ukraine prepared for winter, when demand for heating and electricity adds strain to infrastructure damaged by repeated attacks. Separately, regional authorities reported that attacks across Ukraine over the preceding day had killed eight civilians and injured 67.