Electricity has been fully restored in the city of Vyshhorod after nearly four days without power following a Russian missile strike, while heating has also been restored to affected communities in Obukhiv district.
Power outages in Vyshhorod followed an exceptionally large-scale Russian attack on Kyiv and the surrounding region overnight on Dec. 27. The air raid alert began shortly after 1 a.m. Kyiv time and lasted for nearly 10 hours, until 11:20 a.m. Kyiv time, amid sustained missile and drone strikes.
About 9,000 households in Vyshhorod were left without electricity for roughly 100 hours after Russian strikes damaged critical energy infrastructure, Ukraine’s largest private energy company DTEK said in a Telegram post.
“The enemy severely damaged a substation. Repair works continued for four days without interruption, day and night. All households are now back with electricity,” DTEK wrote.
The restoration took two days longer than initially communicated by Vice Prime Minister for Restoration and Minister for Communities and Territories Development Oleksii Kuleba, who said during a briefing on Dec. 29 that power supply had been restored the same day. In practice, DTEK reported full restoration only on the morning of Dec. 31.
Head of the Kyiv Regional Military Administration Kyiv Regional Military Administration, Mykola Kalashnyk, also wrote on Telegram that heating had been restored to homes in affected communities of Obukhiv district.
During Russia’s mass missile attack on the night of Dec. 27, around 500,000 households in Kyiv were left without electricity, while more than 40% of residential buildings in the capital and parts of Kyiv region, including Obukhiv district, lost heating.
According to Ukraine’s State Emergency Service, State Emergency Service of Ukraine, one woman was killed and five people were injured during the missile strike in Vyshhorod district.