Ukraine is working to stabilise its energy system following massive russian attacks: Mykola Kolisnyk

Due to russian shelling, the situation in Ukraine's integrated energy system remains complicated. This was announced by Deputy Minister of Energy of Ukraine Mykola Kolisnyk.

The Deputy Minister said that all nine power units of nuclear power plants located in Ukraine-controlled territory were currently operational. To balance the power grid and meet consumption needs, Ukraine is also using electricity imports and, when necessary, emergency assistance from partner countries.

"But the main difficulty is the availability of electricity transmission between the central and eastern power systems," he clarified, emphasising that the latest massive enemy shelling was concentrated on the nodes on which the transmission of electricity throughout the power system as a whole depends.

Mykola Kolisnyk stressed that russia continues to attack Ukraine's energy sector. Over the past day alone, energy facilities in the Kharkiv, Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk and Odesa regions have been attacked. As a result of the russian attack in the Odesa region, one of the employees of the energy companies was wounded and is currently in hospital.

Due to the consequences of enemy attacks in all regions of Ukraine, power restrictions for industrial consumers and businesses are currently in force, and hourly power cuts are being applied. Thus, in the western region, there are two stages of power cuts, and in the southern, central, northern and eastern regions, there are three turns of power cuts.

Energy professionals are working around the clock to restore power supply and connect facilities to backup electricity systems. Active work is underway to accumulate and replenish emergency repair equipment reserves. At the same time, in frontline regions, the work of emergency repair crews is complicated by continuous russian shelling of civilian energy infrastructure.

The state has fulfilled its task of accumulating sufficient energy resources for stable winter operation – more than 13 billion cubic metres of gas have been pumped into underground gas storage facilities, and the necessary reserves of coal and oil fuel have been formed.

To strengthen Ukraine's energy security, the Government continues to implement a policy of developing distributed generation: conditions for land allocation, technical connection to networks, construction and commissioning of new facilities have been simplified.

Businesses are actively launching projects to develop distributed generation, including by taking advantage of preferential lending mechanisms provided by the state, in particular the 5-7-9 programme.

Thus, in 2025 alone, more than 1,000 MW of distributed generation capacity has already been commissioned in Ukraine, including 531 MW of renewable energy sources and 661 MW of gas generation, Mykola Kolisnyk said.