Russia attacks energy facilities in 6 regions of Ukraine

Over the past day, due to shelling and fighting, there were power outages in the Donetsk, Kirovohrad, Sumy, Kharkiv, Kherson and Chernihiv Regions.

This was announced by the Ministry of Energy, Ukrainian News Agency reports.

"In the Sumy Region, as a result of the shelling of the territory of the substation, the building was damaged, which led to the blackout of the substation, household consumers, and one of the energy facilities. The power supply was restored. At the same time, six workers received explosive injuries. All the victims were taken to the hospital," the message says.

According to the report, in the Chernihiv Region, as a result of shelling of overhead lines and a substation, household consumers were cut off.

In total, 4,817 consumers remained without electricity, power was partially restored.

In the Dnipropetrovsk Region, an unexploded shell was found during an inspection of the territory of the substation, and it was taken out.

At the same time, in the Kirovohrad Region, for technological reasons, power was cut off at the substation and household consumers, power has now been restored.

As of the morning of Friday, October 4, 528 settlements remain partially or completely without power due to hostilities and technical violations.

At the same time, energy companies restored power to 246,047 consumers that were cut off as a result of hostilities and technological violations.

As 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 electricity imports.

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