Ukraine boosted electrical energy exports by 150% in June 2025 in comparison with the earlier month, reaching over 237,000 megawatt-hours (MWh), based on consulting agency ExPro Electrical energy.
Present export volumes have returned to autumn 2022 ranges, earlier than Russia launched systematic assaults towards Ukraine's vitality infrastructure that triggered huge blackouts throughout the nation.
This marks Ukraine's return to exporting extra electrical energy than it imports for the primary time since October 2023, ExPro evaluation reviews.
Electrical energy can’t be saved in giant volumes for lengthy intervals, so it may be exported throughout sure hours when there’s surplus in Ukraine’s vitality system, and imported throughout deficit hours.
Hungary imported nearly all of Ukrainian exports, with shipments leaping from 34,000 to 122,000 MWh in a single month.
The restoration represents a dramatic turnaround from June 2024, when Ukraine had no exports in any respect and imported 858,000 MWh, 4 instances greater than in June 2025.
Russia continues to focus on Ukraine's vitality infrastructure, with the most recent strike hitting a essential vitality facility in Kherson Oblast on June 27 that triggered widespread blackouts throughout a number of communities.
Governor Oleksandr Prokudin warned residents to organize for extended outages as energy engineers work to revive electrical energy, saying "Russia determined to plunge Kherson Oblast into darkness."
In February 2025, Emergency vitality energy shutdowns have been launched in eight Ukrainian oblasts as a result of Russian assaults on the nation's vitality system.
The Kyiv IndependentAnna Fratsyvir