The high-voltage overhead power line that connects the energy systems of Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova was disconnected yesterday due to technical failures, said the Ukrainian National News agency, with reference to the Ministry of Energy of the neighboring country, IPN reports.

Without deciphering the technical failures, the source shows that in the last 24 hours, the high-voltage overhead line that connects the energy systems of Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova was briefly out of service. The cause of the outage is being clarified, the source said, quoting the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine, which also reported breakdowns of high-voltage overhead power lines in the central and western regions of the country and also in Dnepropetrovsk. In total, due to hostilities and technical failures, 510 localities did not have electricity.

IPN reported that electricity exchanges between the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine intensified after the two neighboring energy systems broke away from Russia’s and synchronized with the interconnected grid of continental Europe in March 2022, less than a month after the start of the Kremlin’s military aggression.

Since last autumn, when the Russian Federation began a series of extremely aggressive methodical attacks on Ukraine’s energy system, resulting in massive damage, Romania’s energy exports to the neighboring country have also increased, both in terms of commercial supplies and in the form of emergency interventions. Transelectrica in the first quarter of the year collected over 3 million lei from emergency aid granted to Ukraine’s neighboring system, consisting of emergency energy supplies to Ukrenergo, at a time when the Ukrainian energy infrastructure was affected by missile and drone attacks launched by the Russian military aggressor.