[The Guardian] City life during Kyiv’s power blackouts – in pictures

City life during Kyiv’s power blackouts – in pictures

Moscow’s renewed assault on power grids and transmission lines in recent months has knocked out about half of Ukraine’s available generation capacity, causing daily blackouts of up to 12 hours in several cities including Kyiv, the capital. Once energy use increases in winter, the situation will only get worse

Russia has attacked energy facilities across Ukraine with missiles and drones over the past few months, causing blackouts in many regions. Ukraine has relied on electricity imports from neighbouring EU countries to fill a gap in generation caused by the attacks. It has also introduced rolling regional blackouts and asked businesses and consumers to limit consumption at peak hours.

A residential area during an electricity blackout in Kyiv. Photograph: Sergey Dolzhenko/EPA

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