About 40% of the energy infrastructure was damaged due to enemy shelling – Verkhovna Rada
This is one of the reasons why the country stopped exporting electricity
What happened? About 40% of Ukraine's energy infrastructure was damaged as a result of enemy shelling.
Source. Statement of the Verkhovna Rada.
Details. “Due to massive missile attacks that damaged about 40% of the general infrastructure and generating capacity of the energy system of Ukraine, the export of electricity to Europe was stopped on October 11 in order to ensure smooth operation of the energy system,” the statement says. The head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Energy and Housing Andriy Herus points out that Ukraine could import certain amount of electricity “for additional stabilisation of the energy system”, but the problem lies in the timely restoration of the energy infrastructure, which “is the target of russian missile attacks.”
According to him, Ukraine does not have a shortage of electricity generation. However, due to damaged networks, “the end consumers have temporary shortages.”
Prosecutor General of Ukraine Andriy Kostin reported on Monday that since the beginning of the invasion, the russian Armed Forces have carried out 85 attacks on electricity facilities in Ukraine, 51 of them in October. Most of the hits were on critical infrastructure facilities in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast – 8, Lviv Oblast – 6, Vinnytsia Oblast – 5, Sumy Oblast – 4, Kharkiv Oblast – 4, and Kyiv Oblast – 4.
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