"Citizens must not be repeatedly left without running water because of Russian attacks against the electric power grid. Equipping municipal water agencies and sewage pumping systems with redundant backup generation is critically important," he highlighted.
The prime minister noted that the generator units are funded through the state reserve fund under a dedicated national program aimed at equipping communities with decentralized mobile generation.
Koretskyi urged local government authorities to execute the installation and electrical integration of the backup generation equipment without delay.
The deployment follows a massive Russian air bombardment on Nov. 3 that state grid operator Ukrenergo identified as one of the largest attacks against Ukraine's energy infrastructure of the war. Over that 24-hour period, Russian forces launched more than 20 concentrated strikes against energy assets deploying an "unprecedented quantity of strike weapons," prompting widespread emergency blackouts across multiple oblasts, including Kyiv.
Following the impacts, municipal utility Kyivvodokanal reported that the capital had temporarily lost running water services across entire districts. Utility engineers cautioned that once electrical substations resumed power delivery, technical teams required additional hours to reboot industrial pumping machinery, recharge subterranean water distribution mains, and repressurize the citywide system.
Municipal water services were fully restored across Kyiv on Nov. 4, with power engineers initially returning the capital and surrounding region to scheduled rotating outage schedules following the emergency blackouts.
However, grid instability reemerged on Nov. 5, when Ukrenergo issued emergency directives mandating unscheduled emergency blackouts across portions of Kyiv's Sviatoshynskyi, Shevchenkivskyi, and Podilskyi districts.