Ukraine's PM: 2,000 gas workers engaged in repairs after Russian strikes

A total of 474 emergency teams from gas distribution companies are working at full capacity across Ukraine. Over 2,000 gas workers are involved in repairs at sites and round-the-clock handling of calls from residents.

Source: Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko after a meeting with Serhii Koretskyi, CEO of Naftogaz, Ukraine's state-owned oil and gas company

Quote: "Serhii Koretskyi, CEO of Naftogaz of Ukraine, and I have discussed how to ensure uninterrupted gas supplies, primarily in frontline regions. We continue to coordinate the work of all parts of the energy system under emergency conditions caused by Russian attacks and severe frosts."

Details: Svyrydenko said that gas workers are doing everything possible to quickly restore supplies to villages and small towns near the front line, where repair crews often work under deliberate Russian attacks.

She said that particular attention is being paid to frontline regions, specifically Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Sumy, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Mykolaiv, Kherson and Dnipropetrovsk oblasts.

Svyrydenko also said that the situation is especially difficult in the city of Kherson, where energy facilities have been heavily damaged by Russian attacks. She added that Naftogaz has provided local residents with 1,750 electric and gas heaters, along with gas cylinders, and is constantly bringing in additional equipment.

Quote: "Invincibility centres are operating inside the premises of state-run filling stations operated by Ukrnafta, which is part of the Naftogaz Group. [An invincibility centre is a heated premises stocked with food and power banks to assist residents facing hardships due to power cuts – ed.]

Help must be where people need it most right now."

Background:

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has held a special conference call focused on the situation in the energy sector and ordered a separate review of buildings that remain without heating in the city of Kyiv.
• On the night of 16-17 January, Russia yet again struck Ukraine's energy infrastructure, leaving consumers in Odesa and Kyiv oblasts without power.
• The attack has left 56,000 families in the Bucha district in Kyiv Oblast without electricity.
• Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko has said around 50 buildings in the city remain without heating out of 6,000 that had no heat supply after an attack on critical infrastructure on 9 January.

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