The three Ukrainian nuclear power plants were reconnected to the power grid after yesterday's outage due to massive Russian bombing, Ukraine's energy ministry said.
"After yesterday's massive bombings, energy sector personnel managed to reconnect three nuclear power plants during the morning," the energy ministry's Telegram statement said, clarifying that the plants will start generating electricity by the evening.
These are the nuclear power plants at Khmelnitsky and Rivne (western Ukraine) and Pivdenovsk (southern Ukraine), which were automatically disconnected from the power grid to protect them when Russian bombing hit a number of Ukrainian power plants.
"If there are no new bombings, we will be able to significantly reduce the power shortage in the energy system by the end of the day," Energy Minister German Galushenko says in his ministry's statement.
In the whole country the situation is generally difficult, but in some regions "the power supply has already increased," the Ukrainian minister assured, adding that it was possible to reconnect critical infrastructure across the country to the power grid.
Kiev Mayor Vitaly Klitschko announced via Telegram this morning that 70% of Ukraine's capital has been left without electricity.
Water supply has been restored in the districts of the left bank of the Dnieper, Vitaly Klitschko clarified, expressing hope that the rest of Kiev will be powered within the day.
Russia fired more than 70 cruise missiles at Ukraine yesterday, targeting energy infrastructure in what was denounced as a war crime.
According to Ukraine's Energy Ministry, they left the vast majority of consumers without power.
Source: Proto Thema
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