US EditionPower outages hit Ukraine and Moldova as Kyiv struggles against the winter cold
A technical fault on power lines between Ukraine and Moldova caused cascading outages affecting Kyiv’s metro, water supply, and Moldova’s capital, with restoration efforts underway, officials said.
- Emergency power cuts swept across several Ukrainian cities and neighbouring Moldova, with blackouts reported in Kyiv and in Zhytomyr and Kharkiv regions.
- Ukraine's Energy Minister Denys Shmyhal said a technical malfunction on power lines linking Ukraine and Moldova caused cascading outages, triggering automatic protection systems after weeks of Russian strikes.
- The outages cut water supplies to Kyiv and temporarily suspended its subway because of low voltage, while forecasters warn temperatures will fall to minus 30 degrees Celsius and last into next week.
- U.S., Russian and Ukrainian officials are expected to meet on Feb. 1 in Abu Dhabi after Peskov confirmed Trump made a personal request to Putin to pause strikes until Sunday.
- Ukrainian officials say Moscow is deliberately denying civilians heat and water, calling it `weaponizing winter`, and Zelenskyy expressed skepticism about peace as Feb. 24 approaches.
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In Ukraine, government figures indicate that there have been widespread power outages due to a technical disruption.
The metro trains in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, will go back to a blackout, but the heating failures are particularly heavy.
In Ukraine, massive power outages occurred on Saturday - according to the government, a "technical disruption" was responsible. This occurred in the morning at the main power lines between Romania, Moldova and Ukraine. Subsequently, for the first time since the beginning of the Russian war of aggression in 2022, the subway in Kiev was completely shut down. Only in the afternoon, they and other important infrastructure again functioned in the cap…
Ukraine's electricity grid is experiencing massive outages after a “technical malfunction” caused the breakdown of power lines between Moldova, Romania and Ukraine, Ukraine's energy minister has announced. A technical fault occurred today, causing a simultaneous interruption of the 400 kilovolt line between the power grids of Romania and Moldova and the 750 kilovolt line between western and central Ukraine,” said Denys Shmyhal.Meanwhile, the Min…
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