The energy supply situation in Ukraine could become critical if Russian shelling continues, DTEK warns. According to them, the worst-case scenario in the winter would be that the country's residents would have to do without electricity and heat for up to 20 hours a day.
This is, in particular, due to the fact that Ukrainian thermal and hydroelectric power plants that have been hit by Russian strikes are difficult and expensive to repair.
“Some of them will take years to repair, and others may never be restored,” the BBC quotes Ukrenergo representative Maria Tsaturyan.
As a reminder, another foreign publication, the Financial Times, wrote on June 5 that Russia's attacks on Ukraine's energy system will likely result in Ukrainians having to live in the cold and darkness throughout the coming winter. In particular, one of the unnamed officials said that Ukrainians will spend most of the day without electricity by winter.
As the article noted, Russian attacks in the winters of 2022 and 2023 targeted the country’s distribution grid, which officials and experts said could be relatively easily repaired. But the latest attacks are targeting thermal and hydroelectric power plants, which will be much more difficult and expensive to repair, restore, or replace.
The Ministry of Energy of Ukraine responded to the article, stating that it contains signs of an information and psychological operation, is manipulative in nature, and promotes enemy narratives.
