Utility workers continue to repair damage from the latest massive strikes on Ukraine's energy infrastructure, Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko reported.
"Energy workers, utility workers, railway workers continue to eliminate the consequences of massive shelling of energy infrastructure. In total, since the beginning of this year alone, 217 Russian attacks on our energy sector have been recorded," she wrote on Telegram.
Russia has been launching its daily terror air attacks, targeting residential areas and civilian infrastructure. Overnight on 3 February, Russian forces struck power generation facilities and main distribution networks in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Odesa, Vinnytsia, and other oblasts. Energy company DTEK called the attack the most powerful strike on Ukraine's energy system since the beginning of 2026.
Moscow spent $324.8 million on the massive missile and drone attack on the night and morning of 3 February, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense reported.
As of the morning of 4 February, consumers in Donetsk, Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson, Chernihiv and Zaporizhzhia oblasts remain without power due to combat operations and shelling of energy infrastructure.
In Kyiv, more than 1,100 apartment buildings in several districts of the capital are currently without heating, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported following a conference call on the energy emergency situation.
Energy Minister Denys Shmyhal earlier said that repairs to the Darnytska thermal power plant in Kyiv, which sustained severe damage after Russia's attack, will take significant time.
