Emergency power outages hit Kyiv, Dnipro, and Kyiv Oblast

Emergency power outages were introduced in Kyiv, Kyiv Oblast, and Dnipro on Sunday, November 8, with regular schedules suspended during these blackouts, according to energy company DTEK. The outages follow Russian attacks on Ukraine's energy system that left over 600,000 consumers without electricity across five districts of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, including Dnipro city. Hospitals and critical infrastructure are switching to generators, and DTEK reported significant damage to key energy facilities. On November 7, Russia struck a DTEK energy facility in Kyiv Oblast, leaving part of Brovarskyi district without power. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said substations connecting Rivne and Khmelnytskyi nuclear plants to Kyiv were hit, with outages also reported in Donetsk, Zhytomyr, and Kharkiv oblasts.