Overview
- Ukrenergo reported morning outages on January 5 affecting consumers in Donetsk, Kharkiv, and Chernihiv regions as well as the town of Slavutych.
- Scheduled hourly power outages for households and capacity limits for industrial users are in effect in most regions today.
- Emergency restoration work is underway where security conditions allow, according to the grid operator.
- Electricity consumption at 09:30 was 5.8% higher than on Friday due to colder weather, prompting calls to use power sparingly and shift heavy use to after 23:00.
- The overnight assault began Sunday evening and included nine Iskander-M missiles, S-300s, and about 165 attack drones, roughly 100 of them Shaheds.