Russian Drone and Artillery Strikes Leave Six Ukrainian Regions Without Power

Emergency repairs have begun where security allows with consumers asked to move heavy electricity use into daylight hours to ease strain.

Overview

Ukrenergo reported that early on Tuesday morning May 26 Russian drone and artillery strikes caused power outages affecting consumers in Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhia, Sumy, Kharkiv and Zhytomyr oblasts.
The operator said nationwide planned load‑shedding is not in place for 25–26 May and that demand remained only about 1.2–1.3% below the previous day.
Emergency restoration crews have started repairs in areas where security conditions permit and work will continue as access and safety allow.
Ukrenergo attributed the small drop in consumption partly to clear weather and productive household solar panels and asked people to shift heavy use to roughly 10:00–16:00/17:00 and avoid running multiple powerful appliances between 18:00 and 22:00.
The operator is posting near‑real‑time updates on Facebook and Telegram, and the longer‑term response builds on prior April repairs that restored several hundred megawatts and on plans to add storage to strengthen grid resilience.