“The equipment is pretty old, and if it were to be ordered for procurement, it would take as long as nine months. That is a luxury we don’t have at this point; winter is already here.
Since October 10, there have been “massive, serious, severe attacks” on the country’s infrastructure.
“There was one on November 15 and it was unprecedented”, said Antonina Antosha, press secretary of DTEK Group. “russia has fire over 100 missiles targeted specifically at energy infrastructure.
Around 50% of Ukraine’s energy system is damaged.
Antonina Antosha added:
“The main problem as of now, in terms of repairing the damaged energy facilities, is the equipment. The Ukrainian energy system was a part of the Soviet system, which means it was built a long time ago”.
But in order for it to be able to get energy to end users, Ms Antosha says the company, and Ukraine more generally, needs equipment to make the necessary repairs to its bruised network.
She said: “The equipment is pretty old, and if it were to be ordered for procurement, it would take as long as nine months. That is a luxury we don’t have at this point; winter is already here”.
“So we are calling for action from our international partners and on Western companies to give us a helping hand and provide us with the resources needed – switch gears, transformers, whatever they can offer really”.
DTEK has had a lot of help from Poland and companies there, as well as Spain, Germany and France. The most important thing to understand here is that we at DTEK are calling for help, not only for us, but for Ukraine in general – the energy system is united and we need to repair all of it.
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