Kiev. Russian attacks have damaged 80% of Ukrainian thermal power plants and half of hydroelectric power plants in recent weeks, the Ukrainian Minister of Energy reported on Monday, denouncing “the largest attack” against the country’s energy sector.
“It can be said that up to 80% of thermal energy generation was attacked, more than half of hydroelectric generation. And a large number of substations” for electrical transmission, Minister Guerman Galuchshenko said at a press conference.
“This is the largest attack against the Ukrainian energy sector,” he added, referring to this wave of attacks that lasts almost daily and has caused long power outages in Kharkov, Ukraine’s second largest city.
According to the minister, “the scale and impact” of this new wave of attacks “are much more important” than those of the Moscow-led campaign last winter, when millions of Ukrainians were deprived of electricity and heating despite the temperatures. glacial.
He highlighted that the Russian army had modified the drones and missiles used for these bombings, making them “even more dangerous.”
Before the Russian invasion of February 2022, electricity production in Ukraine was relatively balanced between coal and gas thermal plants and nuclear plants, with a smaller percentage of hydropower.
The Ukrainian nuclear power plant in Zaporizhia (south), located in the region of the same name and the largest in Europe, has been occupied by Russia since the beginning of the war and no longer produces electricity.
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– 2024-04-13 02:36:14
