“At 18:10, the power engineers of the Kirov electrical networks, after repair (as a result of the hostilities, the wire was broken), included in the work of the 35 kV overhead line, restoring the power supply to all consumers that had been de-energized about 3 hours ago,” the ministry said in a Telegram message.
Earlier, the mayor of Donetsk Oleksiy Kulemzin said that more than 40 thousand citizens in Donetsk were left without electricity due to shelling by the Ukrainian army.
Prior to this, the headquarters of the territorial defense of the DPR stated that three people were killed, two were injured during the shelling of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk by the armed formations of Ukraine.