During his working visit to the Dnipropetrovsk region, First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine – Minister of Energy of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal, together with the Head of the Regional Military Administration, Oleksandr Hanzha, visited one of the region’s coal mines.

During the visit, they met with the mine’s management and staff to discuss current challenges and urgent needs, while coordinating further cooperation in preparation for the upcoming autumn-winter period.

During a working visit to the Dnipropetrovsk region, First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine – Minister of Energy of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal, together with the Head of the Regional Military Administration, Oleksandr Hanzha, and with the participation of Members of Parliament, mayors, and heads of local communities, chaired a meeting with executives of fuel and energy sector enterprises to review the region’s preparations for the upcoming autumn-winter period.

Since the beginning of the year, 4,466 pieces of energy equipment have been delivered to Ukraine. These include generators, transformers, modular boiler houses (MBHs), cogeneration units (CGUs), boilers, and other critical equipment.

The Ministry of Energy of Ukraine has delivered 126.88 tonnes of humanitarian assistance provided by Sweden from its emergency energy assistance hubs to the Odesa region.

The assistance, provided by the Swedish Civil Defence and Resilience Agency (MSB), includes protective engineering structures—various types of gabions and containers—which will be used to strengthen the protection of the region's energy infrastructure facilities.

Deputy Minister of Energy of Ukraine Anatolii Kutsevol met with Muriel Lacoue-Labarthe, Special Envoy of the President of the French Republic for Assistance and Reconstruction of Ukraine.

The meeting focused on priority investment projects in the energy sector that may receive French financing under the Ukraine Fund II Grant Agreement between the Governments of Ukraine and the French Republic.

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

- Energy workers continue around-the-clock restoration efforts to restore power supply to affected consumers as quickly as possible.

- In the Kharkiv region, a hostile UAV struck an energy company's service vehicle. One employee was injured. His life is not in danger.

Deputy Minister of Energy of Ukraine Anatolii Kutsevol held a meeting with representatives of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to discuss preparations for the implementation of the Renewable Energy Acceleration and Market Development for Ukraine (RAMP UP) project, the further development of Ukraine's energy market, and the steps required to introduce new market mechanisms.

Thanks to contributions from international partners to the Ukraine Energy Support Fund, three Ukrainian regions received critical equipment this week to restore and strengthen their energy infrastructure:

Over the past two months, Lithuania has supplied critical energy equipment to Ukraine through the emergency energy assistance hubs of the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine, helping Ukrainian energy companies restore infrastructure damaged by Russian attacks.

Thanks to Lithuania's electricity transmission system operator Litgrid, Ukraine has received high-voltage equipment, including disconnectors, circuit breakers, current transformers, surge arresters, insulators and power transformers.

First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine – Minister of Energy of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal took part in events marking the 30th anniversary of the All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations.

"Today, the state, society and every Ukrainian are facing unprecedented challenges. Churches and religious organizations have become key spiritual centres uniting our nation," Denys Shmyhal emphasized.