The situation with energy supply in Ukraine may become critical if Russian shelling continues, warns DTEK. According to them, the worst scenario in the winter period will be that the inhabitants of the country will have to do without light and heat for up to 20 hours a day.
This, in particular, is due to the fact that Ukrainian thermal and hydroelectric power plants, which have suffered Russian strikes, are difficult and expensive to repair.
"It will take years to repair some of them, and others may never be restored," the BBC quotes Ukrenergo representative Maria Tsaturyan.
It will be recalled that another foreign publication, the Financial Times, wrote on June 5 that Russia's strikes on the energy system of Ukraine will probably lead to the fact that Ukrainians will have to live in the cold and darkness during the next winter. In particular, one of the unnamed officials said that by winter, Ukrainians will spend most of the day without electricity.
As the article pointed out, in the winter of 2022 and 2023, Russian attacks targeted the country's distribution network, which officials and experts said could be repaired relatively easily. But the latest attacks are aimed at thermal and hydroelectric plants, which will be much more difficult and expensive to repair, restore or replace.
The Ministry of Energy of Ukraine reacted to the article, stating that it contains signs of an informational and psychological operation, is manipulative and promotes enemy narratives.
