Another Russian missile attack, which took place on the morning of December 16, damaged approximately nine generating facilities and limited the production of nuclear power plants, Energy Minister German Galushchenko said on the air of the National Telethon.

" We are still verifying the damage. Accordingly, substations that transmit electricity were damaged, which led to a limitation in production, primarily nuclear generation,"

According to him, now the consequences of the missile strike are being recorded, the situation is being analyzed in order to increase the production of electricity in the coming hours..

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He noted that this is not the first time that Russian aggressors are trying to hit both generation and distribution facilities, calling their actions "

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“I ask citizens to treat emergency shutdowns with understanding and assure that we will do everything and even more to recover as quickly as possible,” the head of the Ministry of Energy said..

At the same time, the situation in Kharkiv, according to the minister, will be difficult..

“I don’t want to name the objects that hit, we will try to restore them as soon as possible,” the minister assured.

As a result of rocket attacks on December 16 in Poltava and Kharkov, the light completely disappeared, emergency blackouts were introduced in Kyiv, there are problems with water supply. Subway traffic was stopped in the capital, Kharkiv and Dnipro, and Ukrzaliznytsia warns of train delays due to damage to railway sections in four regions.