Ukraine Energy Operator Says Kharkiv Region’s Electricity Restored

After the Russian strike on NPC Ukrenergo left many without power, Ukrainian state energy company Ukrenergo informed on Wednesday that it has restored two of the main electricity lines supplying part of Kharkiv and the Kharkiv region.

Ukrenergo, which operates the nation’s high-voltage transmission lines, also said that repair crews will continue work on other damaged lines until complete.

Citing insidious shelling by Russian troops as the cause, the Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, said on Tuesday that the entire region of Kharkiv was without electricity after the backup power line supplying settlements failed.

Previously on Sunday, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky informed, Russia responded to Kyiv’s counteroffensive that has inflicted a colossal blow for Moscow, with missile strikes that hit large parts of eastern Ukraine including the Kharkiv power and heating plant.

During the attacks, one employee was killed, and critical infrastructure was damaged.

Among the most recently liberated cities in the northeastern region of Kharkiv is Izium, which was an important hub for Moscow to launch attacks into the Donetsk region and Kupyansk

Zelensky visited Izium on Wednesday, thanking the military and stressing that the city’s liberation is a huge strategic blow to Russia’s military assault in the east.

Ukrainian forces have ruptured Russian defenses and recaptured about 8,000 square kilometers so far as part of its counteroffensive that is, however, slowing down.

Presidential military adviser Oleksiy Arestovych pointed as a reason behind the slowing down the fact that most of the Ukrainian forces are fighting to open their way into the Luhansk region and capture the city of Lyman, which is an important rail hub west of the strategically important Ukrainian city of Severodonetsk.

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