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The station does not produce electricity. Experts inspect the damage to find out...

Zaporizhzhya Fire: DniproGES launched part of the equipment - the Ministry of Energy

The station does not produce electricity. Experts inspect the damage to find out and estimate the scale of the damage caused. On the Dnieper hydroelectric power station, after a missile attack of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, in spite of significant damage, part of the equipment was started. This is stated in the message of the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine. The Office published prompt information about the situation in the power system as of 3:00 pm Friday, March 22.

The station does not produce electricity. There is an inspection of damage to find out and estimate the scale of losses. "High-voltage lines in a number of regions have been partially healed. In particular, the operation of the air transmission of PL-750 kV" Dniprovska ", which feeds the Zaporizhzhya NPP, has been restored," the Ministry of Energy reported. Network restrictions have been lifted in the Zaporozhye region, but there is a disconnection through hostilities.

According to the department, the most difficult situation is in Kharkiv. There are about 600,000 consumers because of significant damage without light. Work is underway to heal the critical infrastructure of the city. "There are network restrictions for consumers in Odesa region (restrictions for more than 230,000 consumers) and Dnipropetrovsk (disconnected 150,000 consumers, restrictions are used for more 2000 thousand subscribers, " - added to the Ministry of Energy.

After the emergency work of energy, consumers in Vinnytsia and Lviv regions healed. On March 22, Russian invaders have carried out the most massive attack on Ukraine's energy infrastructure over the last year. Only in one Dnieper hydroelectric power station the enemy kissed eight times.

The head of the Department of Combating Crime in the Conditions of Armed Conflict The Prosecutor General's Office Yuriy Belousov reported that the hydroelectric power plant was disrupted, but there is no danger to residents of Zaporizhzhya region. The director of Ukrhydroenergo Igor Sirota that HEP-2 was seriously injured, and it is unknown whether it will be possible to restore it. According to him, it is necessary to completely restore the machine hall and electrical equipment.

The director of the Institute of Water Problems and Reclamation of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine Mikhail Yatsyuk reassured that there were no threats to the flooding of hundreds of thousands of hectares, as it was due to the blasting of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station. Russian propagandists have launched information operations and accused Ukraine of an emergency at Dniproges. The Russians claim that the Ukrainians have undermined the dam themselves.