"With every attack more difficult": Ukraine is the first to face the terror of that level - Kudrytsky

Vladimir Kudrytsky, the head of Ukrenergo, spoke about the consequences of Ukraine's shelling on November 23. According to him, the occupiers want to cause a humanitarian catastrophe in the country. Kudrytsky stated that Russian invaders wanted to cause maximum damage to the energy infrastructure of Ukraine on October 10. However, they needed another 7 waves of attacks, as well as use missiles from inviolable stock to achieve some result. He stated this in an interview with HB.

According to Kudrytsky, the attack on November 23 had the greatest consequences on the Ukrainian energy system, which previously showed its stability. He stated that blocks of nuclear power plants were disconnected. "Due to the destruction caused by rocket fire, they could not produce electricity to the network. A number of important thermal power plants were damaged," Ukrenergo said.

According to him, the Russians want to destroy the united power system of Ukraine, the essence of which is that the consumer receives energy not from the nearest power plants. Therefore, they try to prevent energy transfer to different regions. "And we must be ready for their new attempts," Kudritsky said. According to Ukrenergo, the system is now trying to return to planned shutdowns so that people can plan their day in conditions when light is not always.

"But we have no right to give people unnecessary expectations. With each new attack, keeping the deficit restrictions on planned schedules is becoming more complicated. Unfortunately, we now have emergency shutdowns, but they are needed," Kudrytsky said. He stated that there is a list of lines to which energy is supplied first. These are the lines that supply critical infrastructure, such as hospitals, hospitals, water utilities, boiler rooms.

However, the local authorities need to make sure that such objects have their generators. Kudrytsky said Blackut cannot be seen as an "end of the world", but as a difficult test. After that, the system begins to recover. According to him, this is a moment when the system is completely de -energized. "Our experienced dispatchers were the first in the world to face the need to respond to a terrorist attack of this level," he said. Kudrytsky stated that this is a test for both consumers and energy.

The first does not have electricity, communication, possibly water and heat, and the latter has to implement very complex technical processes. "To deploy the system from scratch" is more difficult than just asking objects damaged in the event of a rocket attack when the system still works, "Ukrenergo said. Volodymyr Kudrytsky - Chairman of the Board of the National Energy Company Ukrenergo, who is the operator of the Ukrainian electricity transfer system.