First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine – Minister of Energy Denys Shmyhal held a meeting with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to Ukraine Masashi Nakagome.

The Minister of Energy thanked the Ambassador for Japan’s unwavering support for Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, as well as for the significant practical assistance provided to Ukraine, including to its energy sector.

- As a result of hostilities and attacks on energy facilities, some consumers in the Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson and Kharkiv regions remain temporarily without electricity. Restoration works are ongoing wherever security conditions allow. Energy workers are doing everything possible to restore power supply to all consumers as quickly as possible.

- The most difficult situation remains in the Odesa region. Overnight, Russian forces once again attacked energy infrastructure facilities in the region. Restoration works are ongoing.

Last month, more than 80 tonnes of humanitarian assistance from Germany were delivered from the warehouses of the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine’s emergency energy assistance hubs to the Poltava region.

The assistance includes four transformer substations, two emergency diesel generators, pumps and a heat exchanger. The equipment will be used to ensure the uninterrupted operation of energy infrastructure facilities and to carry out repair and restoration works.

Fifty-five units of specialised electrical and auxiliary equipment provided by Belgian distribution system operator Fluvius System Operator have been delivered from the warehouses of the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine’s emergency energy assistance hubs to a municipal enterprise in the Kyiv region.

The equipment will be used to support the operation of critical infrastructure and carry out repair works, while also contributing to strengthening the region’s energy resilience.

First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine – Minister of Energy Denys Shmyhal held an online meeting with Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi.

The Minister of Energy thanked the IAEA for its continued support for Ukraine and for the work of the Agency’s experts at Ukrainian energy facilities.

- As a result of hostilities and attacks on energy facilities, some consumers in the Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Kharkiv, Sumy and Chernihiv regions remain temporarily without electricity. Restoration works are ongoing wherever security conditions allow. Energy workers are doing everything possible to restore power supply to all consumers as quickly as possible.

More than 80 tonnes of energy equipment provided by Iceland have been delivered from the warehouses of the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine’s emergency energy assistance hubs to energy companies in the Ternopil, Sumy, Kharkiv, Chernihiv and Kirovohrad regions.

The equipment will be used to support the stable operation of the energy system, including electricity transmission and distribution, grid protection, as well as repair and restoration works.

- As a result of hostilities and attacks on energy facilities, some consumers in the Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Sumy and Kharkiv regions remain temporarily without electricity.

The European Union has provided an additional EUR 30 million to the Ukraine Energy Support Fund, bringing its total contribution to the Fund to EUR 279 million. This was announced by First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine – Minister of Energy Denys Shmyhal.

“The funds provided through this financial mechanism help us restore energy infrastructure damaged by Russian attacks, procure critically needed equipment for our energy companies and ensure reliable energy supply, primarily for critical infrastructure,” Denys Shmyhal stressed.

Thanks to contributions from international partners to the Ukraine Energy Support Fund, several regions of Ukraine have received essential equipment worth nearly EUR 2 million to restore and strengthen energy infrastructure.

Contributions from the United Kingdom supported the procurement of transformers and other energy equipment for the Odesa, Dnipropetrovsk and Vinnytsia regions.

Swiss support enabled the procurement of essential energy equipment for the Dnipropetrovsk region.