Kiev to face massive emergency power cuts on Friday - YASNO company CEO

MOSCOW. Nov 11 (Interfax) - Large-scale emergency power cuts, which have been absent since Monday, will again take place in Kiev on Friday, November 11, after fresh damage was inflicted on local power infrastructure, Sergei Kovalenko, CEO of the YASNO company, which supplies electricity to the Ukrainian capital, said.

Ukrainian power infrastructure facilities were again damaged overnight.

"Massive emergency power cuts are being used in Kiev today. It means that there will be no scheduled blackouts," Ukrainian media outlets quoted Kovalenko as saying on social media on Thursday evening.

Such power cuts may take place in all districts of Kiev, he said.

As reported, there were only stabilizing power cuts in the Ukrainian capital in the past three days, and the number of consumers affected by them decreased every day: from 904,000 on Tuesday to 746,400 on Thursday.