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22 October 2023, Ukraine

The Economist features Dmytro Sakharuk on Ukraine’s winter energy challenge

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The Economist features Dmytro Sakharuk on Ukraine’s winter energy challenge

In an article, covering Ukraine’s winter preparation, The Economist quoted DTEK Executive Director Dmytro Sakharuk discussing the multiple challenges faced in keeping the lights on.

“It is like being a hamster in a wheel,” Mr Sakharuk says of the continual attacks and frustration that, as soon as DTEK crews repair or replace equipment, the russians simply attack again.

It quotes Mr Sakharuk’s talking about the 5,000 of DTEK’s 60,000-strong workforce who now serve in the army. ‘So many have gone to fight that 250 women are now working underground in its coal mines’ the paper writes.

Mr Sakharuk also talks about a threat he believes will be even greater than missiles and drones this winter: cyber. A successful assault “can paralyse the whole system” and that can be “much more dangerous than physical damage”, he says.

The article – subtitled ‘Things may be tougher this time’ concludes: ‘Ever since the invasion began DTEK and Ukraine’s cyber warriors have been battling russia’s hackers; and this, he says, is “a game of cat and mouse”. Once you develop a new way to protect yourself the hackers find a new way around your defences. “You are always in motion,” he says. 

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DTEK Group is the leader and the biggest private investor in Ukraine’s energy sector. DTEK Group employs 55,000 people. Our companies are involved in coal and natural gas extraction; electricity generation from wind, solar, and thermal power plants; energy resources trading in local and international markets; distributing and supplying electricity to consumers; providing energy efficiency services to customers; and developing high-speed charging station networks.
 
Our Strategy 2030 commits DTEK Group to transforming into a more efficient, eco-friendly and technologically advanced business, guided by ESG principles. Our goal is to achieve carbon neutrality by 2040.
 
During the war, DTEK Group has restored power-supply more that 8 million customers in the regions affected by russian hostilities.

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