The Kyiv metro stopped operating on the morning of Jan. 31 due to a power outage. Passengers stranded on metro lines were forced to exit through tunnels along the tracks. Energy Minister Denys Shmyhal reported "a cascade shutdown" in Ukraine's power grid in the morning on Jan. 31, following disruptions to transmission lines between Romania and Moldova, as well as between western and central Ukraine. Ukraine's largest private energy company, DTEK, reported emergency power shutdowns in Kyiv and