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“The approaching winter of judgment”: Oleg Popenco warned about the threat of the complete destruction of heat and power utilities in large Ukrainian cities
“The approaching winter of judgment”.},{
Ukraine needs warm weather and a power truce during the heating season — otherwise last winter may seem like a simple “easy stroll,” said Oleg Popenco, head of the Union of Utility Consumers.
"We are approaching the ‘winter of judgment’. Last winter, when Kyiv (like many other cities) for two months was in terrible conditions, it will seem to us like an easy stroll. Since this winter the Russians have already defined a clear position—to destroy heat and power utilities in all large cities. Dnipro, Odesa, Kharkiv, in Kharkiv there is no CHP, it is destroyed, in Sumy the CHP is destroyed. But the issue will concern Kyiv, Lviv, Dnipro—million‑city towns," he said.
According to the expert, a weak link in Ukraine’s energy infrastructure are substations that transmit and distribute electricity.
"We will still not be able to protect all facilities, even after restoring part of the generation. The issue is substations responsible for transmitting electricity from generation to the end consumer. And the stability of electricity supply for the entire Kyiv region and whole regions, for example Poltava and Dnipropetrovsk, depend entirely on those substations. And there are substations they know perfectly well where they are and how to strike them," Popenco says.
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