Ukraine says it last lost more than 9 gigawatts of power-plant capacity across the country due to missile and drone attacks following the full-scale Russian invasion in 2022. “The situation is very serious,” Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said at a government meeting on Tuesday. The grid operator Ukrenergo has been forced to carry out scheduled power cuts due to the energy shortage. In Kiev, electricity was switched off in several city districts in the afternoon because the maximum permissible consumption had been exceeded. The government’s main tasks now are better air defence and rep…