“The disconnections will not apply to hospitals, schools, facilities providing basic living needs and enterprises of the defense-industrial complex. Electricity supplies to these facilities will remain uninterrupted. (…) We make decisions to support people. We direct the released amounts of energy to individual consumers,” Svyrydenko emphasized.
What restrictions on energy supplies has Ukraine introduced?
Which facilities will not be affected by power outages?
What decisions have been made to support the population?
Which regions are most affected by power outages?
She also informed that her cabinet had taken a number of decisions aimed at improving the situation in ensuring electricity supplies to the population. Svyrydenko added that the government grants permission to import electricity to state-owned enterprises and companies in which the state holds at least 50 percent. shares.
Transmission system operator Ukrenerho said on Tuesday that emergency blackouts have been introduced in most regions due to Russia's recent attacks on the energy system. In a statement, the company said that the interruptions would last until “the power grid is stabilized.”
The Ukrainian Ministry of Energy reported that in the capital alone, about half of the population experienced power outages following the Russian attacks. “The situation in Kiev remains one of the most difficult,” the statement said.
