Ukraine’s state-owned power operator Ukrenergo said Wednesday that the country’s energy crisis is the «most serious in history» after Russia carried out new attacks on the Ukrainian power grid.
«The situation is serious, the most serious in history, but we are keeping control of the system. The enemy again struck the Ukrainian power grid: objects across the country were attacked,» Ukrenergo CEO Volodimir Kudritsky said in a statement on the Facebook social network.
According to Kudritski, this is the sixth «massive attack» by Russian troops on the country’s energy infrastructure since the beginning of October, claiming that perhaps the last one was the largest of all with about a thousand missiles.
«Each missile flew with the aim of plunging Ukraine into darkness,» the general director of the Ukrainian energy company said in his letter, claiming that the Russian attack was carried out «with a cynical calculation», since it takes place at the beginning of peak consumption.
However, Ukrenergo informed that the energy industry «is already rehabilitating» facilities and working on repairs to ensure supply.
«I will say it once again: the situation is serious and Ukrenergo’s main task at the moment is to maintain the controllability of the power system. Emergency shutdowns are used for this purpose. If we implement a shutdown, then the system is still controlled. What we are protecting everyone from is the collapse of the energy system that the enemy expects,» Kudritski said.
«There is no country in the world that can prepare for missile attacks on the energy system of this scale. My foreign colleagues constantly inform me about this. We will stand up, we will find ways to supply electricity, we will work through the night and all the days to come. There is little pleasure in being the main target of a terrorist country’s missile reserves, but they will not break us,» he added.
