Overview
- Ukrenergo said drone and artillery strikes damaged energy sites and caused new outages in the Sumy, Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, and Zaporizhzhia regions.
- The grid set daytime limits for factories from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. and ordered hourly cuts for all users from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m.
- The operator reported demand 7.9% below the prior day after it imposed limits and urged people to save power during the 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. peak.
- Crews are repairing equipment where security allows, and bad weather left four Poltava settlements partly or fully without electricity.
- The Cabinet extended fixed‑price gas for new frontline gas‑fired plants through September 30, 2026, and ended fixed pricing for other thermal units, which could steer fuel and repairs to generators near the front.