Approximately 40 percent of the population of Odessa in southern Ukraine, some 280,000 people, is still without electricity following the serious failure this past Saturday of a transformer during repair work on a power plant following a Russian attack.
The country’s Prime Minister, Denis Shmigal, has also reported the gradual arrival of generators from other parts of the country to preserve the supply in the city’s critical infrastructures and extend the network over the next few hours.
«Right now there are 40 percent of consumers without supply. We have already received 25 generators and 50 more are on their way,» the prime minister said in comments to the Ukrainian channel 1+1.
Odessa’s local operator, DTEK Odessa Electric Grids, has promised that electricity will be restored to the entire population in the next few hours albeit with heavy restrictions, according to local news portal Odessa Life.
The port of Odessa is a key element in the agreement reached between Russia, Ukraine and the international community to resume exports of Ukrainian grain and Russian fertilizers to countries in need of humanitarian aid. The city is also an important industrial center where a number of companies are still headquartered.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
