On 6 November 2026, ANTIKOR reported that a fire broke out at an electrical substation in the Kyiv region of Ukraine after a strike that the report attributes to Russia. Footage circulating online showed the facility engulfed in flames after the impact. The...
Energy incidents: Ukraine
Incidents recorded in Ukraine across battery storage, solar, wind, grid infrastructure and data centres.
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On the morning of 16 October 2026, at about 7am according to the source, a fire was reported at the Nijnegorskaïa electrical substation (PS 110/35/10 kV) on Molodijna Street in the village of Nijnegorski, in Crimea, which the source describes as temporarily...
A fire was reported at the Nyzhnohirska substation (PS 110/35/10 kV) in Nyzhnohirskyi town, Crimea, on the morning of 16 October 2026. According to a Telegram channel called Krymsky Veter, relayed by Ukrinform and reported by Mezha, the substation was burning...
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As of 14 October 2026, power outages were reported in the temporarily occupied cities of Donetsk and Makiivka, Ukraine. Local residents reported a fire at a substation between the two cities, and footage of the fire was reported to be visible from parts of...
Russian attacks damaged substations and overhead and underground power lines in Zaporizhzhia city and in frontline areas of Zaporizhzhia oblast, Ukraine. According to the regional electricity company, which announced the damage on its Telegram channel and was...
A report published on 1 October 2026 says power outages began in several districts of temporarily occupied Crimea after an overnight explosion at a large power substation in the village of Nizhnegorsk. Settlements in the Krasnogvardeisky and Pervomaisky...
Nizhnohirskyi substation was reported to have been attacked. The 110/35/10 kV facility, which has transformers with a combined rating of 50 MVA, supplies the Nizhnohirskyi district. Outages were reported in part of the village and surrounding areas. In...
According to preliminary information reported by Lvivoblenergo, an explosion occurred at an electrical substation in Lviv, followed by a fire. Central Lviv, the Frankivskyi district and the Novyi Lviv neighbourhood were partially left without power. Emergency...
A fire was reported at a substation in the Dniprovskyi district of Kyiv on 18 April 2026. The Kyiv City State Administration said the fire left parts of the district without power and delayed tram and trolleybus services. Emergency crews were reported to have...
Energoatom, Ukraine's national energy generating company, reported an outage on the Ferroalloy-1 transmission line at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, which left the plant without external power supply. Energoatom called it the fifteenth blackout at the...
A fire broke out at an electrical substation in the suburbs of Lutsk, Ukraine, according to the ANTIKOR national anti-corruption portal, which published its report on 19 October 2026. The report states only that the fire had broken out and that information...
Fires were reported at two large solar power plants in Crimea, in a news report citing a Telegram channel and satellite images. The first was reported at the Mykolaivka plant in the Simferopol District. An electrical substation belonging to that plant was...
Monitors reported that, after night explosions in Feodosia, a large electrical substation on the Kerch Highway caught fire. The facility was described as the Feodosia high-voltage main power grids, a key energy asset for the city. Reports said the damage left...
Russian drones were reported to have struck three wind turbines, each of 4.5 MW, at the Kramatorsk Wind Farm in late October 2025. Strikes were reported on 22, 24 and 25 October. Two turbines were described as damaged or destroyed in the earlier strikes, and...
In the late evening of 3 August 2025, an explosion was reported at an electrical substation in temporarily occupied Berdiansk, Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine. The Ukrainian outlet UNN reported that the substation supplied the industrial facilities of the former...
On 22 September 2024, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in the Ternopil region reported an explosion at a transformer substation on Lukiyanovych Street in Ternopil. The service said an SV-110 insulator exploded at a substation described as 110 kW, and...
A drone attack caused a fire at a Ukrenergo substation in the Dnipropetrovsk region and damaged equipment there and on two high-voltage overhead lines serving Kryvyi Rih. The report said this was the third strike that night with Shahed drones on energy...
According to a Ministry of Energy report relayed by Transformer Magazine on 22 September 2023, a 330 kV substation was damaged by missile fire in one of Ukraine's regions, and several 110 kV substations were cut off as a result. Almost 49,000 consumers in 90...
On a Saturday reported in early February 2023, a fire broke out at an overloaded substation in the port city of Odesa, Ukraine. Reporting said nearly 500,000 people were left without electricity. Power was later restored to critical infrastructure. It is not...
On 25 April 2022, at about 08:30, a missile strike caused an explosion and fire at the traction power substation that supplies Krasne railway station in Lviv Oblast, Ukraine. The head of the Lviv Oblast Military Administration reported the incident on...
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