Ukrainian Power Minister Denys Shmyhal has reported that key substations and 750 kV and 330 kV energy strains – which he described because the spine of Ukraine's energy grid – have been hit on the evening of 6-7 February.

Supply: Shmyhal on Telegram

Particulars: The Russians additionally attacked the Burshtyn and Dobrotvir thermal energy crops.

Quote: "Substations and 750 kV and 330 kV energy strains – the spine of Ukraine's energy grid – have been below assault…

…Energy output was lowered on the nuclear energy plant reactors by personnel. Schedules of 4 to 4 and a half queues are in impact throughout Ukraine now, and particular emergency energy minimize schedules have been launched within the japanese and northern oblasts." [Ukrenergo, Ukraine's state-owned electricity transmission operator, defines a "queue" as a group of consumers and businesses using a specific amount of megawatts. The Dispatch Centre sets the number of queues needed across oblasts to address energy deficits. Critical infrastructure and eligible industrial companies that import at least 60% of their energy cannot be disconnected, according to a Ukrainian Cabinet resolution – ed.]

Particulars: Shmyhal added that dispatchers from Ukrenergo requested emergency help from Poland.

Background: Russian forces performed a large-scale strike on Ukraine on the evening of 6-7 February. Khmelnytskyi, Rivne, Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk and Lviv oblasts have been attacked.

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