During the week of November 2-8, a total of 219 incidents occurred at energy, oil and gas facilities in Ukraine, the country's First Deputy Minister of Energy, Artyom Nekrasov, announced during a briefing.
He added that, as a result, hourly blackouts are currently in place in most areas, while industrial companies are subject to restrictions on their power consumption capacity.
The Ministry of Energy, for its part, noted that the electricity supply situation in the Dnepropetrovsk and Kyiv regions is the most critical.