Russia causes billions of dollars of damage in attacks on Ukraine since 10 October
OLEKSII PAVLYSH – FRIDAY, 21 OCTOBER 2022, 18:55
Since October 10, Russia has hit at least half of Ukraine's thermal generation capacity, causing it to suffer billions of dollars of damage due to missile attacks.
Source: Herman Halushchenko, Ukraine’s Energy Minister, in an interview with Reuters.
The Minister stated that not all damaged power units have stopped working completely.
Halushchenko emphasised that 30-40% of the country’s energy infrastructure had been affected during the attacks, which aimed at destroying the energy system of Ukraine – a goal that he said had not been achieved.
Quote by Halushchenko: "It's quite a lot of capacity. I can tell you that it's... at least half of thermal generation capacity, even more [than that]," he stated when asked about the scale of the damage.
"This week, they targeted a number of thermal power (plants)," Halushchenko stated, adding that Ukraine had lost 4000MW in generating capacity as a result of those attacks.
"We see that they targeted a number of new facilities, but also they attacked facilities which had been already attacked before so as to destroy them completely", Halushchenko said.
He noted that electricity imports could be one of Ukraine’s options to get through the crisis, and that some traders had already started negotiations with suppliers.
Background:
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the President of Ukraine stated that since 10 October, 30% of power plants had been destroyed as a result of Russian strikes; this caused massive power outages across the country.
On Wednesday, 12 October, Ukrainian media reported that since 10 October, about 30% of the country's energy infrastructure had been hit by Russian missiles.
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