Kyiv’s Left Bank still under emergency outages after massive strike — energy company

Kyiv’s Left Bank has now spent a third consecutive day under emergency power cuts following Russia’s massive strike on December 27, according to Serhiy Kovalenko, CEO of D.Solutions (Yasno, part of DTEK Group).

After the overnight attack, the situation remains challenging: while the Right Bank is able to operate on scheduled outages, the Left Bank continues to experience network instability, Kovalenko wrote on Facebook.

"Several times we tried to switch the Left Bank back to scheduled outages, but consumption rises uncontrollably and exceeds the system’s capacity. So we have to return to emergency shutdowns," he said.

Kovalenko added that energy workers will switch the entire city back to schedules as soon as the network stabilizes.

"I understand how hard this is, especially in freezing weather. But power engineers are doing everything possible — and impossible — to repair the networks and return electricity to every home," he said.

On December 27, Russia launched a large-scale strike on energy infrastructure in Kyiv and the wider region. As of December 29, emergency outages remained in force on the Left Bank, and blackout schedules were significantly extended.