Residents of several villages in the Bucha community would do well to charge their power banks in advance: on 30 and 31 July, DTEK Kyiv Regional Grids will carry out scheduled preventive maintenance that will cut electricity for the entire daylight period.

This was announced in a statement by the Bucha City Council.

On 30 July, from 08:00 to 19:00, power will be off in Lubianka — on Shevchenka, Sadova, Fedora Petrova, Oleha Antonova and Budivelnykiv streets. The same day and the same hours, the outage will also affect Havrylivka, on Mykhailenka Street.

On 31 July, from 09:00 to 19:00, Tarasivshchyna will be without electricity on Shevchenka Street, and Havrylivka again — this time on Sviato-Troitska Street.

The city council explains that the work is intended to improve the reliability of the supply and prevent emergency failures in the network. In plain terms, engineers are trying to find and fix weak points now, in summer, when an outage is far easier to endure than in winter.

Scheduled maintenance is not the same thing as emergency or rolling blackout schedules. Here the date and time are known in advance, so residents have time to prepare: draw water if the house runs on an electric pump, charge devices, and think through what to do about the fridge. Eleven hours without power in the July heat is above all a question of keeping food from spoiling.

It is also worth warning neighbours who may not follow the municipal channels — older residents in particular, for whom a full day without electricity becomes a genuine hardship.

The Bucha City Council asks residents to treat the temporary inconvenience with understanding.

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