KYIV: Ukraine imposed nationwide rolling power cuts for the second day running on Thursday, the state grid operator said, as Russia intensifies its attacks on the country’s energy network and temperatures drop.
Russian forces struck gas facilities in eastern Ukraine early Thursday, sparking major disruption to the network in Moscow’s latest large-scale bombardment.
The Russian army has attacked Ukrainian power infrastructure each winter since invading in 2022, forcing Kyiv to impose emergency power cuts and import energy from abroad.
AFP reporters in the northeastern Kharkiv region were in a shop that had been plunged into darkness, as a cashier took payments and operated the till by generator power.
“Due to the challenging situation in the energy system, emergency power outages have been implemented in all regions of Ukraine,” national electricity operator Ukrenergo said in a statement.
