Energy unit set up within Ukraine's State Emergency Service
Ukraine's State Emergency Service (SES) has set up a separate energy unit. The unit has helped a total of 173 people over the past week.
Source: Ukraine's Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko on social media
Quote: "The SES has installed generators in the capital to provide emergency power to residential buildings where repair work is still ongoing. Additional generators have been redeployed from other regions to ensure immediate response to emerging needs. A separate Energy Unit has been established within the SES to manage these efforts."
Details: The SES said that the biggest challenge at the moment is dealing with the aftermath of Russia's latest attack on Kyiv and Kyiv Oblast. Emergency services within the Interior Ministry system continue work around the clock to help repair damaged facilities and support people affected by Russian strikes.
Psychologists from the SES and police are on duty at invincibility centres, providing support to help residents cope with stress. In the worst-hit areas, emergency workers have also deployed inflatable-frame modules in courtyards of apartment blocks. People can warm up there, seek advice and receive essential assistance. [An invincibility centre is a heated premises stocked with food and power banks to assist residents facing hardships due to power cuts – ed.]
Police and emergency workers are also supporting people who encounter difficult conditions due to severe weather. The number of police patrols on roads and streets in populated areas has been increased.
Background:
- Emergency power cuts were introduced in Kyiv on 12 January on the orders of Ukrenergo, Ukraine's state-owned electricity transmission operator.
- Ukraine's Energy Ministry said on the morning of 12 January that Kyiv was gradually moving from emergency cuts to rolling power outages.
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