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Ukraine is significantly better prepared for possible Russian attacks on the energy infrastructure this winter than last year. At the same time, it is impossible to protect all facilities from strikes. These were stated by Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal during the Yalta European Strategy (YES) conference, organized by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, according to a correspondent for Hlavkom.
According to the prime minister, the main task for winter is to protect the energy infrastructure and to prepare decentralized means of ensuring the livelihood of regions, cities, and oblasts. “How to get through the winter? Winter is the protection of our assets, infrastructure, energy. We are preparing decentralized means of ensuring the livelihoods of regions, cities, and oblasts. And this is the main task,” he said.
Shmyhal noted that the energy sector remains under constant Russian shelling, so it is impossible to fully protect all objects. At the same time, in his words, Ukraine has taken into account the experience of last winter. “It is impossible to protect everything completely, that is clear. However, we are significantly better prepared for these attacks than last winter,” the prime minister emphasized.
Shmyhal added that last winter, when he headed Naftogaz, personally observed the daily work on balancing the energy and social systems. “It was a daily balancing of the system, the social sphere. It was such painstaking daily work,” Shmyhal noted.
According to the prime minister, the government is preparing for the worst possible scenarios, because it is better to have a plan of action in advance than to face unexpected attacks. “We have no plan other than to get through this winter and to get through it with dignity. Therefore the government and everyone are doing their utmost to follow the plan,” he said.
Shmyhal also drew attention to the scale of Russian attacks on logistics and infrastructure. According to him, some enterprises have already lost a significant portion of their warehouse capacities. The interviewer noted that the number of attacks on logistics, PCS, some businesses have already lost up to 50% of warehouses, and this is only September.
In turn, the prime minister stressed that in the last two months the intensity of Russian strikes and the scale of destruction have grown significantly. “The escalation of strikes has increased by orders of magnitude, the destruction by orders of magnitude, and the consequences of these attacks have grown considerably,” Shmyhal stated.
At the same time, Shmyhal assured that the government has enough strength and optimism to endure this difficult period. “The fact that this is a challenging period is a fact. I count on support and joint work to get through the winter with dignity,” he summed up.
Reportedly, President Volodymyr Zelensky warned Russia of a response in the event of new strikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure. According to him, Moscow is already preparing to attack Ukraine’s energy system this winter.
As a reminder, Ukraine is preparing for what could be the hardest winter since the start of the full-scale war. Among the most vulnerable to new Russian strikes on energy infrastructure are Kyiv, Odesa, and Kryvyi Rih.
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