As of the morning of November 8, 2026, the most difficult electricity supply situation remains in the Dnipropetrovsk region. This is reported by RBC-Ukraine, citing the press service of the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine and the TSO Ukrenergo. During the night and morning of November 8, new strikes on energy facilities were recorded, resulting in power outages affecting the Dnipropetrovsk, Zhytomyr, Rivne, Sumy, Kharkiv, and Chernihiv regions. In all affected regions where the security situation allows, power engineers are carrying out repair and restoration work; according to the company, regular attacks and frequent air raid alerts significantly complicate their work and delay the restoration of electricity supply.
Emergency blackouts and grid restrictions
To stabilize the power system, emergency blackouts have been introduced in a number of regions. According to Ukrenergo, such measures were applied in the Kharkiv, Poltava, and Sumy regions, as well as in Kyiv and the Kyiv region, where grid restrictions are in effect due to significant damage to energy infrastructure. Previously published blackout schedules in these regions are not active during the emergency mode; the outages will be lifted as the state of the power system improves. Work to restore a stable power supply, the company noted, continues around the clock.
Dnipropetrovsk region: the most difficult situation
The most difficult situation by the morning of November 8 was recorded in the Dnipropetrovsk region. As a result of the attacks, a significant number of energy facilities important for the region's electricity supply were damaged. According to previously released data, due to strikes on the power system, more than 600,000 consumers in five districts of the region were left without electricity; hospitals and critical infrastructure facilities were switched to generator power. Energy engineers are gradually restoring power to critical infrastructure, and repair teams continue working at the damage sites.
Kharkiv region and recovery prospects
A separate note is made of a Russian drone strike on a critical infrastructure facility in the Kharkiv region on the night of November 8: about 250,000 subscribers were left without power. Ukrenergo expects that by the end of the day, power supply to all consumers will be restored, but at the initial stage, due to grid limitations, voltage will be supplied in rotation. The company emphasizes that constant attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure significantly complicate the overall situation in the power system and require the continuation of emergency measures until stabilization is achieved.
