Recent Russian attacks have caused significant damage to the Ukrainian power system, but a total collapse is unlikely, the head ofSince March 22, the Russian forces have been attacking Ukrainian thermal and hydropower stations as well as main networks on an almost daily basis, which has led to blackouts in many regions of the country.
The county’s largest private energy company, DTEK, has said the attacks damaged five of its six power plants, which lost 80 per cent of their capacity.DTEK, which meets about a quarter of the country’s needs, has seen its thermal power stations and other facilities repeatedly hit by Russian missiles, drones and artillery in more than two years of war.
“We are definitely not one step away from collapse. A collapse is an uncontrolled shutdown of most or the entire power system. This has not happened and will not happen, this scenario we consider as unlikely,” he said.Kudrytskyi said that Ukraine may see “localized problems” in separate regions, such as in the country’s eastern city of Kharkiv or in Odesa in the south.
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