Ukraine cannot cover more than a third of electricity demand, Zelenskyy says

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that electricity consumption in Ukraine was 18GW yesterday while the system's capacity is only 11GW.

Source: Zelenskyy on social media

Quote: "Repair works take place after every strike. We have a large number of repair teams. But they cannot do everything on their own, this is complex work.

Work is going on every day not only to restore power stations but also the technical capacity for importing electricity, which is also being destroyed by daily Russian attacks."

Details: Zelenskyy said that he will not specify where repair works are taking place because this would increase the risk of another strike.

Background:

• Earlier, Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha announced that Kyiv, in coordination with the Ministry of Energy, is convening an energy-focused meeting of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group (also known as the Ramstein format) on the instructions of Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko.
• Denys Shmyhal, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Energy of Ukraine, said that apartment buildings with electric heating will not be cut off from electricity in the near future.
• Ukraine's government is considering designating residential buildings with electric heating as critical infrastructure to ensure continuous heating.

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