As a result of a massive strike on the night of January 9, more than 500,000 consumers in Kyiv and the surrounding area are without electricity. The city of Slavutych has been completely left without power again. This was reported by Deputy Minister of Energy Mykola Kolisnyk at a briefing.
"Due to the shelling, significant damage has occurred to electrical substations and transmission lines, as well as generating facilities. Currently, over 500,000 consumers are without power in Kyiv and the Kyiv region. Due to damage to networks on the left bank of Kyiv and parts of the region, operators have implemented emergency outages. Scheduled outages are in effect on the right bank of Kyiv," Kolisnyk said.
He noted that the city of Slavutych is again without electricity.
As of the morning, about 3,000 subscribers in the Chernihiv region remain without power.
In Dnipropetrovsk region, 34,000 consumers are also without electricity. Energy workers have restored power supply to over 1 million subscribers who were cut off due to Russian shelling on January 7-8.
It was reported that on the night of January 9, Russian troops launched a combined strike on Ukraine using strike drones and missiles from sea and ground bases. Air defense forces detected and escorted 278 aerial attack vehicles, including 36 missiles and 242 UAVs of various types.
The air defense forces neutralized 226 Russian drones, eight Iskander-M ballistic missiles, and 10 Caliber cruise missiles.
In Kyiv, there are reports of four fatalities and 25 injuries resulting from the Russian attack. Sixteen of the injured have been hospitalized.
In Kyiv region, five people were injured due to the combined attack, and several houses were damaged.