Russia has destroyed 80% of Ukrainian TPPs in recent weeks - Shmigal

To restore the affected blocks of power plants, Ukraine would be very consistent with spare parts from the old Soviet equipment, according to the Ukrainian Prime Minister. The Russian Federation has destroyed 80% of Ukrainian thermal power plants over the last few weeks. It is more than six gigawatts of the Ukrainian power system. The Prime Minister of Ukraine Denis Shmigal shared this information in an interview with Err.

"Unfortunately, Russia continues energy terror - only in recent weeks the Russians have destroyed more than six gigawatts of our power grid. It is both hydropower and coal energy. They continue to beat rockets in our energy facilities, destroy transformers, generators. Unfortunately In recent weeks, Russia has destroyed 80% of the TPP, "Shmigal said.

The Ukrainian Prime Minister stated that the state would have agreed in the restoration of the affected blocks of power plants from old Soviet -type equipment, which has Estonia. "We also work with other partners, we create a decentralized system of energy supply to the population - today we have interruptions with the supply of electricity and people and industry," - said Smigal.

He added that Russia continues to destroy civilian infrastructure, beats residential buildings, kills children and civilians. On March 22, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation has inflicted the most massive impact on the power system of Ukraine since the beginning of a full -scale invasion. DTEK has declared damage to all the units of Burshtyn and Ladyzhin thermal power plants. On March 27, Yasno CEO Serhiy Kovalenko warned about possible problems with light in the summer.

The most critical situation in Kharkiv. Mayor Igor Terekhov said that virtually all energy infrastructure was destroyed in the city. It takes at least a year to recover 25 TPP-5 in Kharkiv. Kharkiv is currently coming from other regions. Volodymyr Kudrytsky, the chairman of the board of NEC "Ukrenergo", believes that the construction of hundreds of small power plants throughout the country will be the best decision to protect the Ukrainian energy system from the consequences of Russian attacks.