Ukraine Frantically Tries To Restore Electricity & Heating In Worst Crisis Since War's Start
Ukraine has been working frantically through Sunday into Monday to restore electricity and heating after a wave of Russian strikes on energy infrastructure severely disrupted parts of the country’s power supply over the weekend, which we documented earlier.
Moscow has only intensified its assaults on Ukraine's energy network in recent months as Trump-backed peace efforts have waned, with each side blaming the other for this. Friday into Saturday alone saw many hundreds of drones and missile pummel Ukraine.
But Ukraine answered, as we also reported, by leaving more than 20,000 people without power in areas near the border, according to local Russian officials.
The war-ravaged nation's energy minister Svitlana Grynchuk had said Saturday, "Currently, power generation is down to zero" and introduced that rolling power outages would remain, with the power cut for between eight and 16 hours a day across most regions of Ukraine through Sunday.
She further indicated regular outages would be seen across Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Poltava, Chernigiv and Sumy oblasts.
"The enemy inflicted a massive strike with ballistic missiles, which are extremely difficult to shoot down. It is hard to recall such a number of direct strikes on energy facilities since the beginning of the invasion," she told a local TV station.
She further called the Friday into Saturday Russian assault "one of the most difficult nights" since the February 2022 all-out Russian invasion.
There have even been new outages due to fresh shelling of critical infrastructure on Monday, with state energy company Ukrenergo announcing:
"Due to the consequences of Russian shelling, a difficult situation in the energy system – today measures to limit consumption are being applied. By the end of the day in most regions there will be hourly outage schedules covering 2 to 4 stages. Also in regions where hourly power cuts are used, there will also be power-limitation schedules for industry and business."
Citizens who do have power are being asked to conserve and not utilize power on non-essential needs.
Millions without power for up to 16 hours a day…
Millions of people in Ukraine are facing darkness and cold. From now on, they will have 16 hours a day without electricity. Large parts of power generation infrastructure have been damaged or destroyed, as has a fifth of heating capacity. Europe has let Russia have its way. 1/3 pic.twitter.com/IPW5uRsSjf
— Nico Lange (@nicolange_) November 10, 2025
One regional sources also says Monday, "The energy sector continues to adapt to ongoing shelling: measures to restrict consumption and schedules to reduce the load on production and business are being applied." Moscow has meanwhile been accused of 'weaponizing' the cold ahead of a frigid winter.
Tyler Durden
Mon, 11/10/2025 – 13:20