Zaporizhzhia Oblast and parts of neighboring Dnipropetrovsk Oblast were left completely without electricity overnight on Jan. 11, as Ukraine grapples with blackouts amid Russian strikes and heavy snowfall.
While the authorities did not specify the reason for the overnight blackout in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, the news comes as Moscow escalates its missile and drone attacks against Ukraine’s energy grid.
Electricity was fully restored across Zaporizhzhia Oblast by the morning, the regional grid operator Zaporizhzhiaoblenergo said on Jan. 11.
Critical infrastructure facilities began to be powered up within an hour of the blackout, which started at 2:11 a.m. local time.
Power outages led to temporary disruptions in the water supply in several areas of Zaporizhzhia, the governor of Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ivan Fedorov, wrote.
“All hospitals in the city continued operating as normal. They automatically switched to backup generators during the outage,” Fedorov said.
“As of 7:00 a.m., power supply to consumers in Zaporizhzhia Oblast — which includes 382,500 households and legal entities — was fully restored,” said the head of Zaporizhzhiaoblenergo, Andrii Stasevskyi.
According to local authorities, Russia forces launched 821 strikes on 27 settlements in Zaporizhzhia Oblast over the past 24 hours.
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