“Due to damage to the power grid facility during the latest air attack on Kyiv and due to increased electricity consumption after the holidays, the city is forced to return to blackouts,” the authorities said in a Telegram message.
Earlier, the mayor of the Ukrainian capital, Vitaliy Klitschko, said that emergency power outages were occurring in Kyiv due to damage to energy facilities.
On the night of January 2, the head of the Kyiv regional military administration, Oleksiy Kuleba, said that explosions were heard in the Ukrainian capital.