diff --git a/nixos/modules/system/boot/systemd-nspawn.nix b/nixos/modules/system/boot/systemd-nspawn.nix
index db6e06b41072..3ddd45b13482 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/system/boot/systemd-nspawn.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/system/boot/systemd-nspawn.nix
@@ -113,11 +113,21 @@ in {
   config =
     let
       units = mapAttrs' (n: v: let nspawnFile = "${n}.nspawn"; in nameValuePair nspawnFile (instanceToUnit nspawnFile v)) cfg;
-    in mkIf (cfg != {}) {
-
-      environment.etc."systemd/nspawn".source = generateUnits "nspawn" units [] [];
-
-      systemd.targets.multi-user.wants = [ "machines.target" ];
-  };
+    in 
+      mkMerge [
+        (mkIf (cfg != {}) { 
+          environment.etc."systemd/nspawn".source = mkIf (cfg != {}) (generateUnits "nspawn" units [] []);
+        })
+        {
+          systemd.targets.multi-user.wants = [ "machines.target" ];
 
+          # Workaround for https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/67232#issuecomment-531315437 and https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/13622
+          # Once systemd fixes this upstream, we can re-enable -U
+          systemd.services."systemd-nspawn@".serviceConfig.ExecStart = [ 
+            ""  # deliberately empty. signals systemd to override the ExecStart
+            # Only difference between upstream is that we do not pass the -U flag
+            "${pkgs.systemd}/bin/systemd-nspawn --quiet --keep-unit --boot --link-journal=try-guest --network-veth --settings=override --machine=%i"
+          ];
+        }
+      ];
 }