Emergency outages: UZ announces stabilization of electricity situation on the railway

Ukraine has normalized the situation with electricity on the railways amid emergency blackouts in parts of the country. About this reported national carrier, Ukrzaliznytsia.

"The situation with power supply on the railroad, which arose due to the disconnection of external power, has been stabilized," the post says.

According to UZ, power supply has been restored in almost all regions – trains continue to run on their routes, and the delay is "minimal and will be caught up."

There is also electricity and heat at the stations, and heating stations are operating normally, the company noted.

"Kyiv City Express has resumed running. Approximate delays are 20-30 minutes. We are catching up with the schedule as much as possible," the statement summarized.

• The Ministry of Energy announced emergency shutdowns in Kyiv, Zhytomyr and Kharkiv regions. In particular, the subway in Kyiv and Kharkiv was shut down. Power outages also occurred in Moldova.
• First deputy PM Shmyhal said that the outages were caused by a technological failure with simultaneous disconnection of lines between the power systems of Romania and Moldova and between western and central Ukraine.
• Earlier, DTEK wrote that power outages happened due to bad weather in the Odesa region.