It was the first time since the start of the war in late February that Russia had been “dramatically focused” on energy infrastructure, Ukraine’s Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko told US broadcaster CNN on Tuesday (local time).
Halushchenko said one of the reasons for the attacks was that Ukrainian electricity exports would help European countries use less Russian gas and coal. The Ukrainian energy system is “still stable”. He urged other countries to “provide air defense systems that could really help us protect our infrastructure”.
More than seven and a half months after the war started, Russia fired dozens of missiles at various parts of Ukraine on Monday. On Tuesday, Russia shelled the western Ukrainian region of Lviv in particular. According to the local military administration, four substations have been completely destroyed. After that, almost a third of the residents were temporarily without power.
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According to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the Russian attacks mainly targeted his country’s energy infrastructure. In recent days, he had called on the population to pay attention to electricity consumption and reduce consumption, especially during peak loads in the evening, so as not to overload the electricity grid. In the national average, a tenth of the energy could be saved on Monday, Selenski said in his speech on Tuesday evening.
(SDA)