Bad weather forces electricity shutdowns in eight Ukrainian regions

KYIV: Ukraine’s national grid operator imposed emergency electricity shutdowns in eight Ukrainian regions on Tuesday (Mar 28) because of bad weather, and said Russian attacks had affected the power supply in some frontline areas.

The shutdowns follow an improvement in electricity supplies across Ukraine in recent weeks, in what officials have hailed as a victory in their battle to restore power after months of Russian missile and drone strikes.

The grid operator, Ukrenergo, said storms, wind, snow and rain in seven regions of western Ukraine and in the southern region of Odesa had resulted in blackouts for consumers.

It said electricity distribution networks in the Kharkiv region in the northeast, Zaporizhzhia in the southeast and Kherson in the south had been damaged during recent shelling.

“A difficult situation with electricity supply remains in the regions along the front line where the enemy constantly damages the networks with artillery fire,” Ukrenergo said in a statement. “In particular, distribution system operators’ networks in the Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions were damaged yesterday as a result of Russian shelling.”

Ukrenergo said it was maintaining limits on electricity consumption in the central Zhytomyr region because of damage to the network during Russian attacks this month.

For all the latest world News Click Here 

Read original article here

Denial of responsibility! TechAI is an automatic aggregator around the global media. All the content are available free on Internet. We have just arranged it in one platform for educational purpose only. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials to their authors. If you are the owner of the content and do not want us to publish your materials on our website, please contact us by email – [email protected]. The content will be deleted within 24 hours.