{"id":695939,"date":"2026-01-14T18:31:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T18:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/695939\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T18:31:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T18:31:12","slug":"ukraines-zelenskiy-to-declare-energy-emergency-after-russian-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/695939\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine&#8217;s Zelenskiy to declare energy emergency after Russian attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Jan 14 (Reuters) &#8211; President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday he would declare \u200ba state of emergency in the \u200cenergy sector to tackle issues with disrupted power \u200csupplies following sustained Russian attacks on infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Zelenskiy acted as emergency crews proceeded with round-the-clock efforts to restore power and heating supplies \u2060thrown into \u200cdisarray, particularly in Kyiv, by a Russian attack last week. Repairs \u200dhave been compounded by frigid weather, with night-time temperatures dipping close to -20 Celsius (minus 4 Fahrenheit).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;The \u200bconsequences of Russian strikes and deteriorating weather \u200cconditions are severe,&#8221; Zelenskiy wrote in English on the X social media platform.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Overall, a state of emergency will be declared for Ukraine\u2019s energy sector &#8230; Many issues \u2060require urgent resolution.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Zelenskiy said a \u200bpermanent coordination headquarters would \u200bbe set up in Kyiv, with Denys Shmyhal, first deputy prime \u200dminister and \u2060newly appointed energy minister, overseeing the work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He said work was underway &#8220;to significantly increase \u2060the volume of electricity imports into Ukraine&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting by \u200cRon Popeski and Yuliia Dysa; \u200cediting by Mark Heinrich)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan 14 (Reuters) &#8211; President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday he would declare \u200ba state of emergency in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":695940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[26135,2000,299,209910,209911,657,20729,173263],"class_list":{"0":"post-695939","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-energy-sector","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-power-supplies","12":"tag-russian-attack","13":"tag-ukraine","14":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskiy","15":"tag-zelenskiy"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115894884059443582","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}