Electricians are working tirelessly on the front line of Ukraine’s battle against russian missile and drone attacks. In an exclusive interview with Kyiv Post, energy worker of DTEK describes his team’s work and talks about the terrifying first few days of russia’s full-scale invasion.
- “I was going home while explosions were rumbling around my house,” he says. “The russian offensive was clearly on. “We have a bomb shelter at work and I took the kids there. We were very tense. There was little information, and nothing was known for certain.”
- “Despite the danger, Afanasenko says everyone still showed up for work and many of those that lived near critical power facilities moved into bomb shelters nearby.”
- “He recalls fixing power lines near one of Kyiv’s main thermal power stations when he received an urgent call command from his superiors telling them a missile was heading their way and that they needed to leave the area immediately. They did, just in time to see it fly past them on the way out. “It flew over so low and, at first, we thought it was an airplane,” he says.”
- “There are so many people in Kyiv who depend on our work,” he says. “It’s already incredibly stressful for them with all the shelling, but if there is also a power outage for a long time, it would be even worse. So we have to work.”
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