There is a blackout again in the region, the outages will be long.

In the Dnipropetrovsk region, more than 3,000 miners were trapped underground due to a rocket attack.

“As a result of the massive attack and the lack of electricity in the Kryvorizka, Pavlograd and Synelnyk districts, more than 3,000 miners were trapped underground. Now they have all been brought to the surface,” the head of the Dnipropetrovsk regional council, Mykola Lukashuk, said on the Telegram channel.

Lukashuk notes that the situation with electricity supply in the region remains difficult, as the occupiers have caused significant damage to the power system.

“We have another blackout. Please be prepared for extended outages,” he said.

Russian missile attack: details

On December 16, the Russian occupiers fired 70 cruise missiles and 4 guided air missiles at Ukraine, 60 of which were shot down by air defense forces. As a result of the strikes, several energy infrastructure facilities and residential buildings were damaged in the Zhytomyr, Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhia regions.

The company “Ukrenergo” announced and then ended the emergency situation (blackout) in the unified energy system of Ukraine after massive Russian missile strikes on Friday, December 16.

In the Dnipropetrovsk region, as a result of a rocket attack, three people were killed and 16 were injured.