Emergency Electricity Outages Announced in Kyiv

The Ukrainian DTEK energy company has announced that emergency electricity outages have been declared in Kyiv and the Kyiv region.

“Kyiv and the region are switching to emergency electricity outage schedules,” the company stated in a release on its Telegram channel.

Local energy companies in Zhytomyr, Poltava, Cherkasy, and Chernihiv regions have also reported emergency electricity outages.

On January 31, the Ukrainian publication Insider.ua, citing the Ukrainian energy company Ukrenergo, reported that emergency electricity outages had been declared in nearly all regions of Ukraine. The Ukrainian Minister of Energy and First Deputy Prime Minister Denis Shmygal stated that the reason was a technological failure in the unified electricity grid of Ukraine, Romania, and Moldova.

Later, analyst Yuri Korolchuk from the Institute for Strategic Research announced that the electricity deficit in Ukraine had reached 8 gigawatts. On January 16, Shmygal declared a state of emergency in Ukraine’s energy sector.

Sergey Kovalenko, director of the Ukrainian YASNO energy company (part of the DTEK energy holding), stated that electricity outages in Ukraine could last more than 16 hours a day.