Ukrainian energy infrastructure around Kherson was "
virtually destroyed
" during the withdrawal of Russian forces and the situation is "
complicated
" in Odessa, targeted by strikes, national operator Ukrenergo said on Friday (December 9th).
“
On Monday, the enemy struck again.
It was again the Ukrenergo facilities, the main line substations, particularly in southern Ukraine, and the power plants that were damaged
,” lamented its head, Volodymyr Kudritskiï at a conference. Press.
“successful job”
According to him,
the “successful work
” of Ukrainian air defense prevented more Russian strikes from hitting their targets and further damaging the national energy grid.
"
More than a thousand missiles and drones
" have been fired by Russia "
since October 10
", the date of the first major Russian attacks on Ukrainian energy sites, he told journalists.
According to him, the most difficult situation, "
is in Odessa (southwest) and in the Kherson region where the electricity network has been practically destroyed
".
Repair work in the Kharkiv region (northeast) of Donetsk (east), where fighting is raging around the city of Bakhmout between Ukrainians and Russians, "
is also complicated
", he further specified.
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Volodymyr Kudritskiï also indicated that "
virtually all (Ukrainian) hydroelectric power stations have also been damaged and have limited electricity production capacity
" following Russian strikes which plunged millions of Ukrainians into darkness and cold.
He noted that it was "
technically possible to import
" electricity from other European countries, but "
the problem is that European electricity is much more expensive than Ukrainian electricity
", he said. lamented.
On Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin assured that his army would continue its strikes against Ukrainian energy infrastructure, in retaliation according to him for the attacks that Moscow attributes to kyiv in particular against the Crimean bridge, partially destroyed in early October during an attack on the truck bomb.
