SHAPOVALIVKA, KHARKIV OBLAST, JAN 15 —In the village of Shapovalivka in the Kharkiv Oblast, power engineers carried out repair work and partially restored the electricity supply. To restore the power, the workers repaired the high-voltage cable and replaced the transformer, utility poles, and wires in the village. This was reported by Kharkivoblenergo [Ukrainian energy supply company – ed.]

“There is difficult terrain here that did not allow us to work for some time. Now the ground is frozen, and our vehicles could drive through. Currently, everyone who lives in the village has electricity,” the company said.

Before the war, there were about 60 registered electricity supply points in Shapovalivka. According to local authorities, the village’s population is now 12 people.

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Recently, power engineers have also managed to restore electricity to 30 houses in the deoccupied village of Velyki Prokhody in the Derhachi community of the Kharkiv Oblast.