At the initiative of the Ministry of Energy, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine approved a decision that, according to First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine – Minister of Energy Denys Shmyhal, will create additional incentives for the development of distributed generation and an increase in electricity imports.

As the Minister of Energy noted, electricity supply restrictions will henceforth not be applied to industrial and commercial consumers that cover at least 80% of their electricity consumption through:

- Overnight and in the morning, Russia launched another massive attack. As a result of hostilities and strikes on energy infrastructure, some consumers in the city of Kyiv, Kyiv, Donetsk, Odesa, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk and Kharkiv regions are temporarily without electricity. Emergency restoration works are already underway wherever security conditions allow. Energy workers are making every effort to restore power to all affected consumers as quickly as possible.

The Ministry of Energy of Ukraine and the Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Lithuania signed a Joint Declaration on Energy Cooperation between Ukraine and Lithuania.

The document was signed by First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine – Minister of Energy Denys Shmyhal and Minister of Energy of the Republic of Lithuania Lukas Savickas during the visit of the Lithuanian delegation to Kyiv.

The energy partnership between the two countries will focus on:

The adopted law will enable the preservation and further development of Ukraine’s only enterprise engaged in uranium ore mining and the production of natural uranium concentrate.

In particular, the document provides for:

Since the beginning of the year, 4,658 pieces of energy equipment have been delivered to Ukraine. These include generators, transformers, modular boiler houses, cogeneration units, boilers and other equipment.

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

- Restoration works are underway wherever security conditions allow. Energy workers are making every effort to restore electricity supply to all affected consumers as quickly as possible.

First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine – Minister of Energy Denys Shmyhal held a meeting with Federal Minister for the Environment, Climate Action, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety of Germany Carsten Schneider during his visit to Kyiv.

Together with representatives of Ukrainian and German energy companies, they coordinated joint steps by Ukraine and Germany to strengthen Ukraine’s energy resilience and deepen the strategic partnership between the two countries.

First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine – Minister of Energy Denys Shmyhal, together with President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other senior officials, took part in the solemn reburial ceremony for Colonel Yevhen Konovalets at the National Military Memorial Cemetery.

During the ceremony, those present paid tribute to the memory of Yevhen Konovalets and all fallen defenders of Ukraine. The reburial of the Colonel at the National Military Memorial Cemetery marked an important event in preserving and restoring Ukraine’s historical memory.

More than 58 tonnes of energy equipment provided by German partners have been delivered from the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine’s emergency energy assistance hubs to critical infrastructure facilities in the Lviv, Dnipropetrovsk, Zakarpattia and Kirovohrad regions.

The assistance includes electrical and energy equipment, energy storage systems, solar panels, inverters and other equipment for the needs of the energy infrastructure.

The equipment will be used to carry out repair and restoration works and to ensure reliable electricity supply in the regions.

The First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine – Minister of Energy of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal chaired a regular meeting of the Headquarters for Eliminating the Consequences of the Emergency Situation in the Energy Sector. With the participation of the leadership of the Kherson Regional Military Administration and energy companies, the meeting focused on the electricity supply situation in Kherson region.