Restoring electricity after the strikes: DTEK Grids DSO restored electricity to almost 4.5 mln homes in August

Thermal power generation01 September 2026

During the last month of summer, the enemy continued to attack peaceful towns and villages and destroy energy infrastructure. Despite all security challenges and difficulties of wartime, specialists of the DTEK Grids Distribution Systems Operators managed to completely or partially restore electricity to the residents of more than 2,200 settlements, thus restoring power supply to almost 4.5 mln homes of Ukrainians*, de-energized due to the strikes in four regions and in the capital. Energy workers commence repairs of the grids as soon as possible once they obtain permission from the AFU and SES.

Restoring electricity after the strikes: DTEK Grids DSO restored electricity to almost 4.5 mln homes in August

Last month, energy workers continued to work on grids and equipment repairs both in the frontline and in the more distant regions.

For the fourth months in a row, the majority of restorations were registered in the Donetsk region, which remains the nexus of the most active hostilities. Here, energy workers managed to restore electricity to 2.6 mln* homes of local residents in August.

Other regions suffered no less from enemy attacks: DSO specialists in the Odesa region were able to restore electricity to 1.1 mln families in August, despite all challenges. Energy workers in the Dnipropetrovsk region managed to restore power to almost 569,000 homes of the region’s residents last month.

Energy workers in the capital, in their turn, restored electricity to 90,100 households, de-energized due to the enemy attacks. In the Kyiv region – to 38,200.

“Despite still constant enemy attacks on power facilities in August, our specialists continue to hold the energy front. Since the beginning of the full-scale war, we have already restored electricity to 53.6* million families in Kyiv, Odesa, Dnipropetrovsk and Donetsk regions, as well as in the capital,” – noted Alina Bondarenko, CEO at DTEK Grids. – The number is huge and it keeps rising, as some facilities have already been repaired on dozens of occasions. Every field trip means working in the conditions of increased danger, after obtaining permission from the military and SES, knowing that the threat can recur at any moment. And we continue to fight for light in the homes of Ukrainians.”

Specialists of the DTEK Grids DSO continue to work together with AFU and SES in the regions of fiercest hostilities and restore operation of the grids immediately after obtaining permission from them.

* considering that some customers had electricity restored to them on dozens of occasions.