Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – Ukraine is expected to experience blackout problems until at least the end of March next year. This happened because the country’s power plants were repeatedly attacked by Russia.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said half of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure was damaged by the Russian attack. This has left millions without electricity and water as winter sets in, with Sergey Kovalenko, head of major private energy provider YASNO for Kyiv, saying workers were rushing to complete the repairs before winter arrived. ‘winter.
“I want everyone to understand: Ukrainians will most likely live with a blackout at least until the end of March,” Kovalenko said in a Facebook post. ReutersTuesday (11/22/2022).
Blackouts have become daily “food” for residents of all regions of Ukraine. Network operator Ukrenergo said more outages are expected starting Tuesday.
Kovalenko added that new restrictions on electricity distribution by grid operators were imposed in his area on Monday. This resulted in the disruption of more than 950,000 customers.
“Pack warm clothes, blankets, think about options that will help you wait out a long blackout,” says Kovalenko. “Better do it now than miserable.”
The government also offered free evacuation and housing for residents of the city of Kherson, which had just been liberated from Russian occupation.
“Given the difficult security situation in the city and infrastructure problems, you can escape during the winter to safer parts of the country,” Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said on the Telegram messaging app.
Russian Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov himself said his attack on the Kiev energy point was a consequence of the country’s refusal to negotiate. Moscow’s military is also known to have suffered major setbacks in its operations in Lyman, Kharkiv and Kherson due to successive attacks from Ukraine.
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