Blackout hits Dnipro, leaving 350,000 consumers without power

Dnipro lost power on the morning of Oct. 30 after Russian strikes hit the region's equipment a day earlier. DTEK, Ukraine's largest private energy company, said more than 350,000 electricity consumers in the city and nearby settlements were left without electricity. Following an instruction from Ukrenergo, emergency power cuts were introduced in Dnipro, the districts around the city and parts of the Pavlohrad district, DTEK said. Dnipro Mayor Borys Filatov said no electric-powered public transport was running apart from buses: neither trams, nor trolleybuses, nor the metro. As of 07:30, the Dnipro City Council's Transport Department reported that power to the metro had been partially restored, with trains running at 16-minute intervals. Repair work is underway. Oleksandr Hanzha, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Military Administration, said power engineers had restored electricity to some consumers in the region overnight, but Dnipro lost power again because the damaged energy grid could not cope with the load, he wrote later. Filatov urged residents to keep at least several days' food and water at home and to stay indoors if possible. DTEK has reported that parts of Dnipro and nearby districts lost power following a Russian attack on the main power networks.

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