Do I need to turn off the lights during the war: blackout rules

At the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the Disinformation Counteraction Center recommended that Ukrainian residents take measures to blackout their homes. This should help protect living quarters from impacts at night.

Among these measures were: turning off the lights in dwellings, curtaining windows, turning off street lighting in private houses.

There are a lot of power consumption fakes circulating on the net, in particular about turning off all appliances and lights in the house, when reconnecting to the power systems of Europe.

NEC Ukrenergo asks consumers not to participate in fake campaigns to turn off the light in the evening in support of Ukraine, which are information attacks Russian invaders.