During the day, it was possible to restore electricity to almost 6 million Ukrainians. Repair work continues continuously.
This was announced by President Volodymyr Zelensky in his evening address.
According to the president, there are also problems with the supply of heat and water. The most difficult situation is Kyiv and the region, Vinnytsia and the region, Lviv and the region. In many other regions, there are large-scale blackouts: these are Dnipro and the region, Volyn, Zhytomyr region, Zakarpattia, Ivano-Frankivsk region, Odesa and region, Poltava region, Ternopil region, Chernihiv region and other cities and regions.
- On the evening of December 16, after the missile strike, the Ukrenergo company canceled the state of emergency in the United Energy System (UES) of Ukraine. The state of emergency in the energy system was introduced due to Russian shelling, after which more than 50% of the UES consumption was lost. Oleksandr Kharchenko, director of the Energy Research Center, explained in a comment to Babel what the announcement of an emergency situation in the energy sector means.