The power will be cut for between eight and 16 hours in most regions of Ukraine on Sunday, the attack on the Russian system has facilitated the conduct of the energy infrastructure at “zero”.
Moscow, which has launched attacks on Ukraine’s infrastructure in recent months, launched hundreds of drones at energy facilities across the country from Saturday.
The Russian attacks damaged electricity, heat and water supply in many cities of the Ukraination, with the warrier chancerity of the centerner state “falling to zero”.
Ukrenerggo says that repairs are being made and the flow of energy is being transferred.
While the situation has improved, the regions including Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Cortaving will continue to say regular power cuts, the Minister of Ukraine said on Saturday night.
“The enemy launched a massive strike with a ballistic missile, which is very difficult to shoot. It is difficult to remember direct attacks from the beginning of the attack on energy facilities,” Svitlana Grynchuk told local news.
Russian drones targeted two nuclear sites in western Ukraine, Kyiv’s foreign minister Andrii Sybiha said, calling the UN’s nuclear watchdog.
The substations run the Khmelnytskyi and Rivne nuclear plants, about 120km and 95km (75km (75 kilometers and 55 miles)) respectively from Lutsk, he said.
“Russia is deliberately endangering the nuclear safety of Europe. We call for an urgent meeting of the IAEA Board of Governors,” he wrote in Telegral on Saturday.
Sybiha also urged China and India – traditional buyers of Russian oil – to pressure Moscow to stop its attacks.
Experts say that strikes on energy infrastructure put Ukraine at risk of heating outages before winter. Russia has targeted power and grid repairs during the nearly four-year invasion, which has damaged a large portion of key civilian infrastructure.
This weekend attack was the ninth attack on gas infrastructure since early October, the Ukrainian energy company said.
The School of Economics estimated in a report that the attacks shut down half of the natural gas production in Ukraine.
The highest energy expert in Ukraine, Oleksandr Kharchenko, told a media briefing on Wednesday that if the plants with more than Minus 10C, the capital will face a “technological disaster”.
Ukraine has had a spate of attacks on Russian oil depots and refineries in recent months, seeking to cut Moscow’s energy exports across the country.
Early Sunday, Russian air defense units destroyed 44 drones in Ukraine, Ria News Agency reported, citing daily data from the Russian defense ministry.
With additional reporting from reuters