According to the head of Ukrainian diplomacy, Andriy Sybiga, one of the main air strikes launched by Russia damaged the thermal power plants of Ukraine’s largest private electricity company, DTEK.
The private company claims that the equipment is seriously damaged.
DTEK announced emergency power cuts on Sunday in the Kiev region and two regions in the east of the country, while national authorities earlier denounced a massive Russian attack on the country’s power grid.
“Emergency power cuts in Kiev, Kiev region, Donetsk region and Dnipropetrovsk region,” DTEK wrote on Telegram.
According to DTEK, this is already the eighth large-scale attack on its energy facilities this year. It has already been targeted more than 190 times since the start of the large-scale Russian invasion in February 2022.
Since the beginning of the war, Russia has been trying to “turn off” Ukraine’s energy systems and plunge the country into darkness so that the population will break down.
The harsh winter ahead poses a real challenge to President Zelensky’s policy of defending his country.
(MH with AmBar/Source: Agence/Photo DPA/ Russian Look / Kremlin Pool)
