Russian War Against Ukraine: Energy Dimension DiXi Group alert (status as of 1 2 :00, April 2 4 ) Stop r ussian nuclear terrorism! Set A2/AD and no - fly zones over Ukraine’s nuclear facilities, impose sanctions on Rosatom! Stop the atrocities! Introduce full embargo on r ussian oil and gas imports! #StopRussianAggression #StandWithUkraine Summary • The enemy continued bombing Ukrainian cities even before the Orthodox Easter . The Russian army has used all possible means to attack civilians in Mariupol, and a miss ile attack on the residential building in Odesa killed people, including a 3 - month - old child • In the occupied territories, the invaders continued terrorizing civilians and forcibly mobilizing to their army not only men but also young people and medical wor kers • Over 750,100 consumers remained without electricity supply, over 231,000 consumers remained without gas supply • Ukraine provided the IAEA with a list of necessary equipment for the safe operation of Ukraine's nuclear facilities during the war. • The C EO of Naftogaz Yurii Vitrenko warned of the risk of gas transit disruption due to the Russian interference in the operation of infrastructure in the temporarily occupied territories Attacks: D onetsk region In the last 24 hours, 12 settlements of the Donetsk region, including Ma riupol, Avdiivka and Lyman, were shelled from aircraft, missiles, multiple launch rocket systems "Grad", tanks and heavy artillery, with civilians killed and injured, as the National Polic e reporte d . The shelling damaged at least 23 residential facilities, including residential bui ldings, an agricultural enterprise and municipal infrastructure The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky i reporte d that April 23 was one of the most difficult days for the defenders of Ma riupol since the beginning of the full - scale war. According to him, the Russian occupiers fired from warships, aircraft, artillery and tanks during the day. On April 23, the Russian troops agai n disrupte d plans to evacuate women and children from the blocked Mariupol. In addition, Reuter s reporte d that the Russians had captured a number of OSCE SMM members in the cities of Donetsk and Luhansk, and the organization was seeking their release Luhansk region During the day, the Russian troops fired 12 times at the residential facilities of the Luhansk region, in particular the cities of Hirske, Zolote, Lysychansk, Severodonetsk , reporte d the Luhansk Regional Milit ary Administration Head Serhii Haidai. As a result of the shelling, 7 houses and a police station were destroyed, an electric transformer and a shop exploded, 6 people were killed and 2 injured. In addition, a main high - pressure gas pipeline wa s damage d , leaving another 5,500 consumers in 11 settlements without gas supply. Fierce battle s continue d in the cities of Rubizhne and Popasna, in the Severodonetsk direction the enemy out pontoon crossings across the Krasna river Kharkiv region The Russian occupiers continued shelling on residential facilities of the city of Kharkiv and the region, with streets, residential houses, warehouses under fire , as reporte d the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration Head Oleh Syniehubov. According to preliminary data, 7 civilians were injured and 3 killed in the city of Kharkiv and in the Chuhuiv district. As a result of the shelling in the north - western districts of Kharkiv , fire s broke out at warehouses and a private house In the occupied territories of the Kharkiv region, the Russian army was forcibl y mobilizin g Ukrainian medics. In particular, in the city of Vovchansk, junior medical personnel were forcibly sent to the front to provide first aid to the Russian wounded. In case of refusal, they were threatened with execution Odesa region On April 23, the Russian troops fired missiles on the city of Odesa, as a result 8 peopl e were repo rted kille d , including a 3 - month - old baby According t o the Operational Command "South", the Ukrainian air defense shot down 2 missiles fired from aircraft from the Caspian sea area, and 2 UAVs of operational and tactical level, which corrected the flight of missiles. The Odesa City Counci l reporte d that two missiles hit residential facilities and a military facility, and one of the city cemeteries was damaged After the missile strike on Odesa, the Russian Defense Ministr y announce d the use of chemicals in the area of the Pivdennyi port, accusing Ukraine's special services of a possible chemical attack. On April 23, at 22:00, the Ukrainian Air Forces shot dow n two missiles launched f rom the Black Sea by a Russian ship and heading towards the Pivdennyi port Dnipropetrovsk region The Russian troops launched a missile strike on the Pavlohrad district, aimed at railway infrastructure and an industrial facility, as a result 8 buildings were destroyed and 1 person killed , reporte d the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration Head Valentyn Reznichenko Mykolaiv region The employees of municipal utilities in the city of Mykolaiv were dealing with consequences of the enemy's shelling in recent days As of April 2 4 , since the beginning of the Russian invasion, 2,800 residential facilities were partially or completely damaged in the Mykolaiv region, including 2,046 housing, 240 electricity, 101 gas, 8 water a nd 7 heat supply facilities. Works on restoration of the damaged Dnipro - Mykolaiv water supply system were ongoing, technical water supply for residents was organized Kherson region According t o t he Operational Command "South", in the Kherson region, on the eve of the so - called "referendum" the enemy tried to intensify fighting and carry out offensive operations. However, the Armed Forces managed to regain control over 8 settlements in the region. The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reported that the occupiers had begun forced mobilizatio n of young people in the occupied te rritories of the region, for which any opportunity to leave for the territories controlled by Ukraine was almost completely blocked Zaporizhzhia region According t o the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration, 546 households have been completely destroyed or partially damaged since the beginning of hostilities in the region. On April 23, shellin g damage d 5 private houses in the village of Zaliznychne and 3 houses in the village of Staroukrayinka. In the village of Kamyanske (Vasylivka district) 3 civilians were killed due to artillery shelling According t o the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, the Russian occupiers began to forcibly mobilize not only the military, but also medical personnel and you th in the temporarily occupied territories of the Zaporizhzhia region. In addition, the number of people abducted by Russian terrorists was increasing. It was reported that 182 civilians were held hostage, 100 of whom have already been released. The mayor of Melitopol Ivan Fedoro v reporte d that the occupiers had kidnapped the honorary consul of Bulgaria in the temporarily occupied city Nuclear and Radiation Safety : All operating NPPs of Ukraine operate stably, and the radiation, fire and environmental conditions at the station sites and adjacent territories are within the standards. 7 of 15 operating nuclear units are in operatio n (two each at the Zaporizhzhia, South Ukraine, and Rivne NPPs, and one at the Khmelnytskyi NPP), the other 8 are under maintenance or put in reserve Chornobyl NPP Exclusion Zone Zaporizhzhia NP P Before the IAEA mission, Ukraine provide d the Agency with a list of necessary equipment for the safe operation of Ukraine's nuclear facilities during the war. The list includes equipment for the country's nuclear facilities, as well as radiation measuring devices, protective materials, computer assistance, power supply systems and diesel generators. Ukraine's request will be coordinated through the RANET mechanism, with the IAEA member states off ering support opportunities in various fields On April 26, the IAEA mission is schedule d to arri ve at the Chornobyl site under the leadership of the Director General Rafael Grossi. During the mission, the IAEA experts aim to repair remote monitoring systems that stopped transmitting data after the occupation of Chornobyl NPP by the Russian terrorists . Also, there was an announcement on the delivery of personal protective equipment, various types of equipment for radiation monitoring The situation at the Zaporizhzhia NPP and in the satellite city of Energodar remains unchanged. For the 51st da y in a row, they are under the contro l of Russian terrorists. Armed Russian forces, heavy equipment, as well as representatives of Rosatom continue to stay at the station site The ZNPP is serviced by Ukrainian sta ff (with regular rotation) who are forced to work in difficult physical and psychological conditions. As of April 23, the radiation background at the site wa s 11 μR/h. Also, in the Zaporizhzhia region, as of the morning of April 24, the gamma background remains stabl e (6 - 12 μR/h) and does not pose a threat to life and public hea lth The presence of Russian terrorists at nuclear facilities poses extremely high threats to nuclear and radiation safety on a global scale! Ukraine demands to recognize the actions of Russia and Rosatom as nuclear terrorism, which aims to intentionally violat e the security of nuclear power plants, international law and basic human rights with the aim of genocide, ecocide and encroachment on the country's sovereignty. We call on international partners to increase pressure on the IAEA, whose actions may prevent acts of nuclear terrorism by Russia. At the same time, it is critical to minimize Russia's influence on IAEA policies and activities, in particular by removing all Russians from key positions in the Agency's Secretariat and restricting their access to info rmation about Ukraine's nuclear power plants. We also emphasize the need to impose tough sanctions on the management, staff, products, international projects of Rosatom and, in general, the nuclear energy of the aggressor country! Electricity Sector : Power system operation Ukraine's power system has been stabl y operating in trial synchronous mode with the Continental Europe network (ENTSO - E). Commercial electricity exports to Poland continue d at 190 MW Electricity market performance Day - a head market (DAM): For April 24, the DAM weighted average settlement price almost did not chang e and amounted to 2,269.11 UAH/MWh ( - 1.21% vs the previous trading day). There is a continued trend of redu cing the gap in exchange prices between the Eastern European markets and Ukraine. Prices in the markets of Romania, Slovakia and Hungary are 1.6 - 1.8 times highe r than the Base DAM price index of Ukraine, price sprea d with the Polish market is 1.4 times As of April 24, the total volume of trading on DAM continued to decline to 13,133.4 MWh ( - 25% vs to the previous day). At the same time, an increased volume of sale bids at 268,064.6 MWh (+20%) has kept high market su rplus - the gap with the volume of purchase bids increased to 20 times. The structure of tradin g on DAM remained relatively stable. Only producers sold electricity on DAM, and in the structure of purchase 70.2% belonged to suppliers, 30% to network operators, about 0.3% to traders and producers Intraday market (IDM): On April 23, the weighted average price of electricity on IDM slightly increase d to 2,768.63 UAH/MWh (+1% vs the previous day). Instead, the volume of trading decreased to 493. 9 MWh ( - 67% to the previous day). Along with a significant increase i n the volume of sale bids - up to 39,029.2 MWh ( - 3%), these changes led to growth in market surplus as the gap with the volume of purchase bids increased from 26.5 to 79 times On April 23, the s tructure of tradin g on IDM also underwent significant changes. As on the DAM, only producers sold electricity, while 97% of the purchase structure was occupied by suppliers, and 3% by network operators Disruption and resumption of supply According to the Cabinet of Ministers, as of 20:00 on April 23, 943 settlements were disconnected from electricity, a total of over 750,100 consumers. During the day, electricity supply was resumed to more than 43, 600 consumers Large - scale power supply disruptions and, consequently, active recovery works were taking place : • in the Donetsk region, accordin g to the Cabinet of Minister s as of 20:00 on April 23, 286,400 consumers remained without electricity supply; supplies to 4,300 consumers were resumed during the day ; • in the Luhansk region, according to the Cabinet of Ministers, supplies to 18,500 consumers were resumed ; 112,000 consumers remained without electricity ; • in the Kharkiv region , acc ordin g to the Cabinet of Ministers, supplies to 2,500 consumers were resumed; 193,700 consumers were left without electricity ; • in the Kherson region , as of 12:00 on April 24, 52,460 consumers in 82 settlements were left without electricit y ; • in the Zaporizhzhia region , as of 20:00 on April 23, over 20,000 consumers did not have electricity supply; supplies to 1,000 consumers wer e resume d during the day ; • in the Kyiv regio n , accordin g to the Cabinet of Ministers as of 20:00 on April 23, 71,600 consumers remained without electricity, while supplies to 16,200 consumers were resumed ; • in th e Chernihiv region, accordin g to the Cabinet of Ministers, supplies to 900 consumers were resumed during the day ; • in the Mykolaiv region, accordin g to the Cabinet of Minist ers, supplies to 300 consumers were resumed during the day ; • there was no up - to - date information on power supply in the Sumy regio n at the time of the review preparation Gas Sector : As of April 22, the transit of Russian gas through the territory of Ukraine amounted to 58.4 mcm, which is just 1.2 mcm above the previous day level. At the same time, these volumes account for only half of the capacity contracted by Gazprom (109 mcm per day). There were no physical imports of gas from the EU that day Gas transit through Ukraine (at Sokhranivka and Sudzha interconnection points), mc m Source: GTSO U Disruption and resumption of supply The Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv, Kyiv, Kherson, and Mykolaiv regions had the most challenging situation in gas supply. Accordin g to the Cabinet of Ministers, as of 20:00 on April 23, over 231,000 consumers were left without gas supply; gas supply to 5,100 consumers was restored for the last 24 hours. Accordin g to the Kyiv Regional Military Administration, gas distribution was partially restored to 8 settlements (6,192 consumer facilities). In total, gas supply was restored to 106 settlements (97 complete ly and 9 partially, 82,729 consumer facilities). 14 settlements remained without gas supply Accordin g to the Zaporizhzhia Regiona l Military Administration, as of the morning on April 24, almost 65,569 consumers in 82 settlements re m ained without gas supply. 48 settlements of the Berdyansk and Melitopol districts remained disconnected from gas supply due to damage to the main gas pip eline in the Donetsk region The Luhans k Regional Military Administration Head Serhii Haidai reporte d that, as of the morning on Apri l 24, 46 settlements remained with no gas supply (113,610 consumers ) . The local DSO reporte d damage to a high - pressure gas pipeline. As a result, gas distribution stations “Zolote” (2,500 consumers in 2 settlements) and “Myrna Dolyna” (almost 3,000 consumers in 9 settlements) were disconnected In the Donetsk regio n , the local DSO’s specialists restore d gas supply to 426 private households and 68 apartments. Repairs were possible only in areas with no shelling The Mykolai v Regional Military Administration reporte d damage to 101 gas infrastructure facilities since the beginning of the war. 1,497 consumers remained without gas supply. At the same time, gas supply was restored to the village of Kotlyarevo o f the Mykolaiv district (565 consumers) In the Kherson regio n , as of April 24, 19,692 consumers (in particular, 5 settlements of the Stanislav community and 16 settlements of the Beryslav district) did not hav e gas supply. Operational information on gas supply in the Kharkiv, Sumy and Chernihiv regions was not available at the time of the review preparation Countermeasures of Ukrainian C ompanies and P ublic A uthorities The CEO of Naftogaz Yurii Vitrenko state d that, due to Russian interference in the operation of gas infrastructure in the temporarily occupied territories, there was a risk of losing transit, which is one third of the gas volumes exported by Russia t o the EU Ukraine and Poland signe d a memorandum on strengthening cooperation in the railway sphere. The memorandum provides for the creation of a joint logistics company, which will dramat ically increase the volume of Ukrainian exports by railways The Deputy Prime Minister - Minister of Economy Yulia Svyrydenko hel d negotiations with the Turkish Minister of Trade Mehmet Muş. The parties discu ssed, inter alia, the resumption of maritime supplies and the allocation of additional volumes of oil products to the Ukrainian importers Sources: The alerts are developed based on collected, verified, and analyzed information reports of over 100 official sources: ministries, state agencies, network operators, and energy companies. Information was collected only from official websites and official social media accounts. For subscriptions, comments and other questions, please email to: author@dixigroup.org SUPPORT UKRAINIAN ENERGY SECTOR Prior to transferring funds, please email to the Energy Community Secretariat SUPPORT UKRAINIAN ARMY To financially support Heroic Ukrainian Army, please follow the link (The National Bank of Ukraine)