Three cities in western Ukraine left without light after a substation was damaged

Outages in the west and center of the country

In the Volyn region in western Ukraine, three cities were left without electricity — Kovel, Lutsk and Liuboml. The outages were reported by the outlet Strana.ua in its Telegram channel; according to its information, the cause was damage to an electrical substation. At the same time, there were reports of a lack of electricity in Zhytomyr, but the cause of the disruptions there was not specified.

Emergency outages on the morning of November 3

The outages on November 3 were not limited to the west of the country: in the morning, in several regions, emergency power outages began. The energy holding DTEK specified that residents of Kyiv, the Kyiv region and the Dnipropetrovsk region were left without electricity. Earlier, on November 1, southeastern Ukraine had already experienced a massive blackout.

Context: reports of strikes on thermal power plants

On October 27, the Telegram channel Mash reported that Russian ballistic missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles attacked Kyiv's TPP-4, TPP-5 and TPP-6 thermal power plants. According to the channel, RM-48U missiles launched from S-400 anti-aircraft systems were used in the strikes, and TPP-5 was attacked at least twice; impacts were also allegedly recorded in the Holosiiv and Chabany districts and at the Southern Bridge across the Dnipro. This report comes from a single Telegram channel and has not been confirmed by other sources in their publications, so it should be treated as unverified information.