“The source said that three power plants were damaged, one of which is still completely out of order”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
The source said three power plants were damaged, one of which is still completely offline, and it was unclear how long it would take to fully restore them.
The source said that two facilities that were partially damaged have resumed partial production of electricity.
The company previously said that before Sunday’s attack, DTEK had restored approximately half of the capacity it had before the shelling began in March.
Officially, the company reported that the Russian army shelled the DTEK thermal power plant on Sunday, November 17, and the equipment was “seriously damaged.”
Kyiv often withholds information about the extent of the damage so that Russia cannot use the data to better plan its future attacks.
After this attack, for the first time in the last few months, Ukraine began to apply blackout schedules that had not been in effect since the summer.
On the night of November 17, Russian troops launched a massive combined strike against the facilities of the energy sector of Ukraine, using, according to the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 120 missiles and 90 unmanned aerial vehicles.
According to the Ministry of Energy, since October 2022, Russia has carried out more than a thousand strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure facilities, this year alone 9 GW of generating capacity was lost due to strikes.
Earlier, the Minister of Energy Herman Galushchenko said that Ukraine is able to go through the winter of 2024-2025 without power outages, if the forces of the Russian Federation do not manage to destroy the critical energy infrastructure facilities that survived the previous attacks.