Over 550 communities across Ukraine have no electricity - Energy Ministry

MOSCOW. July 16 (Interfax) - Complicated weather conditions have left 48 communities in Ukraine's Chernigov, Zakarpattia, and Zhitomir regions without electricity, Ukrainian media reported referring to the Energy Ministry's post on its social account on Tuesday.

Another 507 populated areas have no power supply for various other reasons, including technical faults.

At the same time, engineers returned electricity to 31,150 customers who were earlier cut off from power supply in the Dnepropetrovsk region, as an overhead power transmission line there was disabled, cutting power supply to a substation, households, and local industrial facilities. The substation's examination discovered a broken wire. All consumers have now been reconnected to the grid.

Engineers also returned electricity in the Odessa and Lvov regions, where technical faults disabled high-voltage overhead power lines, subsequently disrupting power supply to substations and consumers fed by them, including industrial facilities in the Lvov region.

As reported, an emergency at a power infrastructure facility in the early hours of July 16 has prompted emergency outages in seven regions of Ukraine, and all the other regional power operators had to restrict power supply simultaneously to four categories of consumers throughout the day.