In Lviv, hospitals and electric transport were cut off from electricity: Sadovyi sounds the alarm
7 January 09:58
On the night of January 7, some city hospitals and all municipal electric transport were cut off from electricity supply in Lviv. The reason was the government’s decision to change the approach to determining the criticality of enterprises. This was announced by Mayor Andriy Sadovyi, "Komersant Ukrainian" reports
According to him, from now on, hospitals and electric transport are included in the regular shutdown schedules, which poses a threat to the operation of medical facilities and urban infrastructure.
“This is nonsense”: the mayor’s reaction
The mayor sharply criticized the new rules, noting that they do not take into account the real needs of the city.
“Since last night, some hospitals and all municipal electric transport have been cut off from electricity in Lviv. This happened because the government changed the approach to determining the criticality of enterprises. It means that now artificial respiration devices, trams and trolleybuses have to work according to the shutdown schedules. This is nonsense,” Sadovyi wrote on Telegram.
The city is trying to fix the situation
Sadovyi said that since the morning he had been trying to contact members of the Cabinet of Ministers to urgently reconsider the decision and return the status of critical infrastructure to hospitals and electric transport.
“I don’t understand who thought of including hospitals and electric transport in the usual groups of blackouts. But starting tonight, the city has to work according to a new schedule,” he said.
While negotiations with the government are ongoing, Lviv is urgently planning an alternative way to boost electric transport, including backup solutions on routes.
Attacks on the power grid and new approaches
At the end of December 2025, Russia attacked Ukraine’s energy infrastructure facilities every day for a week. During this period, the power system suffered one massive and more than 40 targeted attacks, and more than a hundred damages to the grid were recorded.
Against this backdrop, in December, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine announced its intention to revise the criteria for criticality of enterprises to reduce the duration of outages for household consumers. This was expected to reduce the burden on the population, but in Lviv, such changes led to the disconnection of vital facilities.
The Lviv City Council hopes that the government will promptly remedy the situation, as the stable operation of hospitals and electric transport is critical, especially in winter and martial law.
