The mayor of the town of Varash in Ukraine reported an accident in the power grid

In the Ukrainian city of Varash (before 2016 - Kuznetsovsk) in Rivne region in the west of the country, there was an accident in the energy system. This was reported on November 30 by the mayor of the city Alexander Menzul.

"Emergency situation in the energy system. Unscheduled power outages are possible," he said on his Facebook page (belongs to the organization Meta, which is recognized as extremist and banned in Russia).

The reasons for the incident the mayor does not name. It is known that Varash is also home to the Rivne nuclear power plant (NPP).

Earlier, on November 24, The Times reported that Ukraine is facing "deadly frosts" due to the insecurity of the energy system. The materials noted that in late February, British engineers together with teams from America, Germany and Japan advised Kiev to build structures to protect the energy system.

On November 21, regional energy companies of Ukraine reported that in Zhytomyr and Sumy regions introduced emergency power cuts.

Prior to that, on November 17, the Ukrainian energy holding company DTEK reported that thermal power plants in several regions of Ukraine were seriously damaged. The country's Energy Minister German Galushchenko said that Ukraine was introducing emergency power cuts.

On November 11, The Wall Street Journal reported that an acute shortage of electricity in Ukraine in winter may turn the country's cities into places with uninhabitable conditions. The publication called the inability to generate the required amount of energy a serious challenge for the Kiev regime.