Russian strikes on energy infrastructure on Friday evening and Saturday night left part of Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, and Dnipropetrovsk region without power, and also disrupted water supply in the capital. In Kyiv, the outages affected several districts, and in Kyiv region more than 80,000 families were left without electricity.
Late in the evening, Ukrainian energy holding DTEK reported major outages in Kyiv’s Obolon, Darnytsia, Desnianskyi, and Podilskyi districts and canceled regular outage schedules in these areas.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the strike hit one of the city’s combined heat and power plants, and Ukraine’s Energy Ministry added that the outages also affected a number of districts in Kyiv region. According to Zelensky, more than 80,000 families in Kyiv region were left without power.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported three hits by Russian UAVs on one of the critical infrastructure facilities, after which water supply problems arose in the city. He clarified that this affected 7 of the 10 districts of the Ukrainian capital, and in the morning he announced the restoration of normal water supply and drainage system operations.
According to energy officials, on Saturday electricity in Kyiv will be available for about 6.5 hours, and in the Solomianskyi district for only 1.5 hours a day. Thus, restrictions in the capital remain in place even after water supply has been restored.
In Dnipropetrovsk region, DTEK said there was serious damage to energy equipment, including equipment that had been under repair for almost two days after the previous attack. By the morning of October 31, a significant part of Dnipro and Kamianske, as well as residents of Dnipro and Novomoskovsk districts, were still without electricity, and Zelensky estimated the total number of people left without power in Dnipro and the region at about 200,000 families.
Russia’s Defense Ministry separately claimed a strike on Kyiv’s CHP-6 and said that this infrastructure supplies electricity to military logistics facilities and weapons and military equipment storage sites.
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