Ukraine’s supplies of spare parts for its battered electricity grid are running out amid sustained Russian bombing, and European companies are being asked to urgently donate surplus kit to help the country get through the winter.
Although 37 shipments have already been organised it is unclear if enough kit is available to keep Ukraine’s lights on, prompting a call for more donations and heightened concern among the country’s western allies.member countries met for a two-day meeting in Bucharest, Romania, where it is likely the 30-nation alliance will make fresh pledges of non-lethal support to Ukraine including fuel, generators, medical supplies and winter equipment, on top of new military support.
The “top priority” was transformers, Lorkowski said, used in substations “which are being intensively targeted by Russia” to “make the network not capable to transmit the output of [power] generation units for Ukraine”. The electricity crisis is causing increased concern among Ukraine’s allies. One western official said on Friday there was “a recognition of the need to step up help”, including with improved missile defence, while there was an anxiety about “the time it can sometimes take to repair and reconstitute energy generation”.
Energy Community takes and interprets equipment requests from Ukrenergo, and tries to match them with companies with spare parts around Europe, including the UK.
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