Russia breaks energy truce, resuming attacks on Ukraine's power grid
Photo: Russian strikes have caused power outages in four regions (Getty Images)
The energy truce has ended, and Russia is once again striking Ukraine's energy infrastructure, leaving several regions without power, according to Deputy Energy Minister of Ukraine Artem Nekrasov.
"As a result of Russian attacks on energy infrastructure, residents in the Kharkiv, Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk, and Cherkasy regions are without power. Restoration work is ongoing at energy facilities damaged by Russian attacks," he says.
There is a power shortage in Kyiv and the Kyiv region, the capital will return to hourly power outages when the power system stabilizes.
"Due to difficult weather conditions, over 160 settlements in the Odesa, Mykolaiv, and Kirovohrad regions remain without power," Nekrasov says.
He stresses that power company employees are working around the clock to repair damaged lines.
"In some regions of Ukraine, emergency power cuts are being implemented due to the difficult situation in the power grid. Once the situation stabilizes, residents will return to the predicted hourly schedules," the Deputy Minister says.
Energy truce
On January 29, US President Donald Trump said that he had personally appealed to Vladimir Putin to refrain from striking Kyiv and other cities for a whole week. According to him, the Kremlin leader agreed to this.
Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov later confirmed Russia's agreement to an energy truce, but only until February 1.
At the same time, analysts noted that the moratorium on Russian strikes on Ukraine could be beneficial to the Kremlin for stockpiling drones and missiles.
Yesterday, February 1, Russians attacked a service bus carrying miners in the Dnipropetrovsk region with a drone. 12 people were killed, and the same number were injured as a result of the Russian attack.
