After the drone attack on December 19, the situation with electricity supply in Kyiv remains difficult, power outages not for four or six, but ten hours are quite real, warns Serhiy Kovalenko, CEO of the energy supply company YASNO, which is part of DTEK.

“The situation in Kyiv is difficult. Today, all three groups are almost completely turned off at the same time.. Charts don't work. There is no light on most of the right bank of the city and in some places - in the region. All districts suffer the same,” Kovalenko writes on Facebook..

To date, the entire critical infrastructure of the city, hospitals, water utilities has been healed; metro works. Approximately 20% of consumers also have electricity.

“Are long-term shutdowns in Kyiv real now Yes, ten hours without electricity is, unfortunately, a reality today.. How quickly we will return to stabilization (charts) is difficult to predict. Power engineers at all levels simply do not have time to restore the functionality of the system between arrivals. But I hope tomorrow will be a little better,” he adds..

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On the morning of December 19, the Russians launched 23 Shahed-136 Iranian drones in Kyiv and the region, the defenders of the Ukrainian sky shot down 18 of them. Debris and surviving drones damaged infrastructure, including critical ones, causing a dire energy situation.