Emergency Blackouts Introduced Across Ukraine as Temperatures Dip
Following several weeks of stepped-up Russian aerial attacks which have pummeled Ukraine’s energy and electrical grid, state power operator Ukrenergo on Tuesday announced that rolling emergency blackouts have gone into effect across the country.
It comes amid a drop in temperatures which has served to further strain the grid. “From 21:00 to 24:00 (1800-2100 GMT), Ukrenergo is forced to introduce controlled emergency shutdowns in all regions of Ukraine,” it stated on Telegram.
“The reason for this is a significant shortage of electricity in the system as a result of Russian strikes and increased consumption due to a cold snap,” Ukrenergo added.
The Kiev region has for example seen the temperature drop into the 40s this week, and during the day has been in the 50s.
While likely there’s been greater impact in harder hit parts of the war-ravaged country, especially in the east and south, the capital of Kiev saw at least 10% of households get disconnected Tuesday.
Reuters described that “Footage shared on social media from the western city of Lviv showed buildings in complete darkness in the city center and street lights switched off.”
International report have further indicated blackouts hit Kharkiv and Donetsk and many other places, with predictions of increased disruptions throughout the late evening hours. Currently fighting is heaviest in these oblasts, and Russian forces are trying to establish a 10km deep buffer zone along the border in Kharkiv region.
The below video shows an area of Lviv in complete darkness as cars travel through the city center…
After massive attacks in Ukraine, there is a shortage of electricity power, outages are occurring and emergency schedules are being introduced
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▪️In the video, the Lviv Center is without light, the traffic lights are not working.
▪️In Lviv, Sumy, Volyn and Ivano-Frankivsk… pic.twitter.com/vViHJzl868
Authorities are scrambling to find any way possible to meet demand:
Ukraine plans record electricity imports from five European countries on Monday after reporting significant energy infrastructure damage from Russian strikes, the energy ministry said.
Imports are expected to rise to 19,484 megawatt hours (Mwh), beating the record of 18,649 Mwh at the end of March after the first wave of Russian attacks on Ukraine’s energy sector.
Ukraine forces have been keeping up their cross-border mortar and drone attacks, especially targeting Russia’s own energy depots and oil facilities. Putin has vowed to hit back, and Russian strikes on Ukrainian cities have increased over the last month.
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No Deal Between Moscow And Kiev – London
Britain will not support any solution to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine that involves what it sees as concessions to Moscow, Defense Secretary Grant Shapps told Times Radio on Tuesday.
The UK has been among the largest arms donors to Kiev. In recent weeks, London has stepped up its rhetoric by saying that British weapons supplied to Ukraine may be used for attacks deep inside Russia. Moscow recently summoned the UK ambassador over the matter and warned of possible retaliation, including strikes targeting “any British military facilities and equipment” in Ukraine and beyond.
Earlier on Tuesday, Shapps confirmed that Kiev could use British-supplied weapons to strike Russia’s Crimean Peninsula. London considers the region, which joined Russia in 2014 following a referendum, to be an “integral part of Ukraine,” the defense secretary stated.
Asked by Times Radio whether London would consider any agreement between Moscow and Kiev, Shapps rejected the idea. He added that the UK sees “no sense at all” in persuading or “strong-arming” Ukraine into accepting any peace conditions and “giving up some of their territory.”
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Apart from Crimea, four other former Ukrainian territories – two Donbass republics and Kherson and Zaporozhye Regions – joined Russia in autumn 2022 following a series of referendums. Kiev called the votes a “sham” and claims all four regions and Crimea as its own.
On Tuesday, Shapps maintained that the only way to end the conflict was by inflicting a military defeat on Russia. “I do not think it is plausible at all for [Russian President Vladimir] Putin to win this war,” he said, calling for increased arms shipments to Ukraine.
“It is very, very important that the US follows the UK lead. Remember: we’ve just increased our money to Ukraine this year to £3 billion ($3.78 billion), our biggest-ever package,” the defense secretary said, referring to an earlier announcement by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who committed to spend that sum on military support for Ukraine per year.
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Shapps also indirectly compared modern Russia to Nazi Germany by saying that “we have been in this position before in Europe and we will simply not allow that to happen again.”
“If you give a bully like Putin an inch, he will take a mile. In this case, he will probably take quite a lot, not just Ukraine. I’m not sure he will stop there either,” Shapps added.
In the years prior to World War II, Western nations are seen as having sought to appease Adolf Hitler, most notably through the infamous 1938 Munich Agreement, under which Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France coerced Czechoslovakia into surrendering its border regions to Germany.
Russia has repeatedly stated throughout the conflict that its goals are to protect the people of Donbass against persecution by Kiev and ensure its own security in light of constant NATO expansion toward its borders. Moscow has also repeatedly pointed to the nationalist nature of the Western-backed post-Maidan governments in Kiev that have persecuted Russian-speaking minorities in Ukraine.
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