DTEK reported that power restoration timelines in Kyiv remain unknown, with around 500,000 households currently without electricity due to ongoing emergency outages across the city, according to a post by NOELreports between 3:45 p.m. and 4:15 p.m. UTC on December 27. Kyrylo Budanov, head of Ukraine's Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR), stated that Russian forces aim to capture Donbas and Zaporizhzhia regions while advancing as much as possible in Dnipropetrovsk region, as shared by Dnipro Operatyvnyi in the same 29-minute window. Budanov noted February as the most favorable period for a peace agreement with Russia, linked to military activity and the heating season, and highlighted the Kremlin's pressure tactic of winter strikes on Ukraine's power system, limited until the end of February. These power outages follow earlier detections of Russian Shahed-136 drones near Kyiv region sites including Vyshhorod, Irpen, and Nyvka vectors, as well as a launch from Primorsko-Akhtarsk airfield in Krasnodar Territory, reported by operinform and PPO Radar in prior periods up to 3:45 p.m. UTC on December 27.
