On Tuesday, December 20, lights were turned off in almost all of Kyiv due to a significant power shortage.

Yes, 1.1 million users remained without electricity. 

YASNO General Director Serhiy Kovalenko announced this on Facebook.

"During the day, almost the entire city, about 1.1 million users, was disconnected. We don't even expect to get close to the schedule yet. In fact

, we currently have 50% less capacity than necessary.

From which we have to ask the critical infrastructure. But the light is stably supplied to the critical infrastructure, the city mostly with water and heating.

According to him, there are a number of houses in the capital that have not been turned on since yesterday morning, December 19.

Kovalenko emphasized that the dispatchers are trying to ensure that the districts have supplies at least for a short time. 

"

Repair works are ongoing.

But if you still haven't warmed up and reviewed the list of things you need in order to calmly live through long outages, now is the time to take care of it," he said.

As for the situation in the Dnipro, it is more or less stable there, energy companies are trying to get as close as possible to the schedules. 

The news is updated...

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