After the fourth winter of the full-scale war, Ukraine’s energy system is emerging from one of the most difficult periods in its history.
From December 2025 to March 2026, Ukrainians endured 12 major attacks and hundreds of smaller ones that did not stop for a single day, involving more than 5,000 Shahed-type drones, around 150 ballistic missiles, and hundreds of cruise missiles. But Ukraine’s energy sector held out, and now Ukrainian homes have electricity almost 24/7.
How was this possible?
Russian strikes during the winter of 2025-26 were the heaviest of the entire war.
Russians combined strikes with missiles, drones and artillery. As a prelude to these attacks, they often utilized missiles of different types, from different directions simultaneously, in order to exhaust or bypass Ukraine’s air defense system and inflict critical damage specifically on Ukraine’s energy system. The Russian Ministry of Defense did not shy away from strikes on civilian objects and even created a special “counter” on its website showing the percentage of Ukrainian energy infrastructure hit.