between #Western and #Central_Ukraine," says the #Ukrainian Minister of Energy.

This led to a cascading outage in #Ukraine's power grid and the activation of automatic protection systems at substations. Nuclear power plant units were relieved.

Currently, dispatchers have applied special emergency shutdown schedules in #Kyiv, #Kyiv, #Zhytomyr, and #Kharkiv regions.

#Ukrenergo power engineers are working to restore power. Power will be restored within the next few hours.