The Kharkiv Regional Network Service Center (RCMS) of the Eastern Territorial Network Service Department of PJSC NPC Ukrenergo draws the attention of residents and landowners of the Chuhuivsk urban territorial community to an important issue regarding compliance with the requirements of the "Rules for the Protection of Electric Networks", which were approved by the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine dated December 27, 2022 No. 1455 (hereinafter referred to as the Rules).

The rules were introduced to ensure the safety of electrical networks, create proper conditions for their operation, and prevent accidents from exposure to electric current. They are used in the design, construction, and operation of electrical networks, as well as when performing work or conducting other activities near electrical networks.

The electrical networks operated by the Kharkiv RCOM are overhead power lines (hereinafter referred to as overhead lines) with a voltage of 330 kV.

We remind you that within the protection zones of overhead power lines, it is prohibited to perform the following actions without the written consent of the Kharkiv RCOM, which is responsible for these networks:

• construction, reconstruction, major repairs, demolition of buildings and structures;
• carrying out all types of mining, loading and unloading, dredging, demolition, land reclamation work, felling and planting trees;
• location of field stalls, cattle pens, installation of wire fencing;
• creation of landfills, opening of quarries;
• watering crops, stacking straw, firewood and other materials;
• lighting fires, burning reeds, stubble and straw;
• location of gas stations or other fuel and lubricant storage facilities;
• throw foreign objects onto the conductive parts of electrical network facilities and approach them, climb onto the supports of overhead power lines;
• to arrange sports grounds, markets, public transport stops;
• hold any events with a large crowd of people, launch sports model aircraft, quadcopters;
• agricultural machinery and vehicles must be moved off-road under the wires of an operating overhead power line in places with the least sagging of the wires (closer to the support), while parts of the mechanisms must be in the transport position;
• It is prohibited to cultivate the soil within the embankment around the foundations and support stays.

Despite constant appeals and conversations with the population, the number of 330 kV overhead power line outages due to grassroots fires is increasing every year. Residents of our region, land users often ignore the requirements of the Fire Safety Rules in Ukraine, the Law of Ukraine "On Energy", and the Rules for the Protection of Electrical Networks. And, unfortunately, every spring and autumn we observe large-scale man-made fires.

Considering the above, the Kharkiv Regional Network Service Center requests that you strictly comply with the above requirements, which will allow for the timely supply of electricity to enterprises and citizens' homes.

For all questions related to the performance of work in the protection zones of overhead power lines, including those involving the use of large-sized agricultural and lifting machinery, you should contact the following address: Kharkiv, Kovtuna St., 4. Phones: (057)730-11-28, +38-073-412-25-74 – Head of the Line Operation Department Volodymyr Anatolyovich Kondratyuk, (057)730-11-60, +38-073-412-26- 46 – Head of the Kharkiv Line Section Levus Ruslan Olehovych.

In cases of detection of explosive objects in the protected areas of the overhead line, notify the dispatcher on duty 24 hours a day by calling (057)731-23-53.