#FightForLight: Help us defend Ukraine’s energy

Ukraine is in the fight of its life

Ukraine is in the fight of its life.

Our energy system is the foundation of our democracy.

With power, we have food and clean water, warm homes, connectivity, jobs, transport and information.

By systematically attacking Ukraine’s energy assets, russia is trying to destroy our whole way of life. To cast our democracy into darkness.

Help us defend Ukraine’s energy.

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World heavyweight boxing champion Oleksandr Usyk Fights For Light

National hero Oleksandr Usyk is supporting our fight.

Ahead of his May 18 fight with Tyson Fury to decide the Undisputed Heavyweight Champion of the World, Usyk is partnering with DTEK to help draw global attention to the plight of Ukraine’s civilian power system.

The #FightForLight partnership between Usyk and DTEK aims to highlight the critical state of Ukraine’s energy sector to global allies and to appeal for urgent technical assistance (such as replacement generators, transformers and turbines) to energy companies across the sector, before the onset of winter in six months’ time.

Usyk will be supported in Riyadh’s Kingdom Stadium by around 30 war veterans who have returned to work at DTEK after frontline action in some of the war’s most intense battles.

We are team Usyk on 18 May. And win or lose, we are all resolute in our determination to restore light and warmth to Ukraine.

Key facts

50%

of Ukraine’s energy generation destroyed

80%

of thermal power capacity destroyed

30%

of hydro-electrical facilities destroyed

$11.5

billion worth of damage to the power system

A message from DTEK CEO Maxim Timchenko:

“DTEK is doing everything possible to draw the attention of the world community to the energy infrastructure destroyed by the enemy and the need to restore it and protect it from new criminal attacks by russia.

We appreciate that Oleksandr Usyk and his team share these aspirations and will help Ukrainian energy workers be heard. We have a common goal and a common task – to protect our people and Ukrainian civilian infrastructure, so that every Ukrainian family has light and heat."

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