OREANDA-NEWS  The schedules of emergency power outages drawn up earlier will not be valid for the Odessa region, emergency shutdowns are being introduced in the region. This was reported on Wednesday in DTEK Odessa electric networks.

"We are forced to carry out emergency blackouts. This is a necessary step to balance the power system and avoid equipment accidents. The schedules of stabilization outages are not in effect yet," the company said in a statement on its Facebook page (banned in Russia, owned by Meta Corporation, which is recognized as extremist in the Russian Federation).

The press service of the national energy company Ukrenergo earlier reported that rolling blackouts according to schedules, as well as emergency ones, will be introduced on Wednesday throughout Ukraine. The company warned that the periods of outages will become longer and urged the population to save electricity.

According to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Denis Monastyrsky, more than 30 infrastructure facilities of Ukraine were damaged on November 15 as a result of strikes. On Tuesday, the Minister of Energy of Ukraine, German Galushchenko, said that this attack on the country's energy system was the most massive since the beginning of a special military operation - generation facilities and power transmission systems were destroyed. In this regard, according to him, emergency shutdowns have been introduced in a number of cities of the country.