3 mines de-energized in Donetsk Region due to TPP shelling by enemy - Energy Ministry

On October 22, as a result of shelling by occupiers of a thermal power plant in the Donetsk Region, three coal mines and 7,500 consumers were left without power supply, now everyone is already re-powered.

The Ministry of Energy has said this in a statement, Ukrainian News Agency reports.

"Yesterday, as a result of the shelling, the equipment of one of the TPPs in the Donetsk Region was damaged. Three coal mines and 7,500 consumers were left without power. Everyone is already re-powered. Besides, the enemy launched a missile strike on another mine in the Donetsk Region. People were not injured, the equipment was damaged, at the moment the mine is not working," the report said.

Also due to hostile shelling, some consumers in the Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, Sumy, Kharkiv, Kherson and Chernihiv Regions remain without light.

Repair crews work where the security situation allows.

In total, 14,000 consumers were energized by engineers during the day, most of them are consumers in the Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk Regions.

It is also reported that as a result of technological violations last day, more than 5,000 consumers in the Dnipropetrovsk Region, almost 20,000 in the Kirovohrad Region, and 12,000 in the Kharkiv Region were temporarily de-energized.

There were violations of the movement of trains.

Now everyone is re-energized.

Due to technical violations, 1,600 subscribers remain without light in the Chernihiv Region, in the Zaporizhzhia Region - more than 700 consumers.

Besides, the energy staff continues to prepare the power system for the heating season.

A large-scale repair campaign at thermal, hydro- and nuclear generation facilities is underway.

In particular, due to a detected malfunction, the equipment of a HEPP hydraulic unit, which was damaged during shelling last winter, went into emergency repair.

Commercial electricity imports over the past day amounted to 1,024 MWh.

Exports to Slovakia and Moldova amounted to 234.00 MWh.

As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, the russian occupiers fired at one of DTEK Energy's thermal power plants on the evening of October 22.