Ukraine, 24 hours after another night of massive bombings on its infrastructure, continues to take stock of the destruction which mainly targets the energy sector. Visit to one of the power plants targeted by Moscow.
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Our correspondent in Ukraine, Stéphane Siohan, visited a spa resort, an electricity production plant of the DTEK group, the largest private Ukrainian electricity producer, a plant which was hit by a massive bombing on March 22. Somewhere in the Central WestUkrainebut it is not allowed to say where for security reasons.
Facilities there are completely destroyed, the site received eight ballistic missiles in a single night about three weeks ago and approximately two blocks of the four main production blocks are completely destroyed and the plant is shut down.
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It is a power plant that supplies electricity to two Ukrainian regions, this means that the possibility of providing electricity for cities, for transport, for heating is currently completely at a standstill and, according to officials met. It will take between six months and eighteen months to repair this power station which was manufactured in the early 1970s – Soviet equipment is no longer available on the market and it is very difficult to repair this.
Today it is estimated that 80% of Ukraine’s heating potential has been destroyed in recent weeks. Summer is coming, the temperatures are hot, but the situation is really very tense on the energy front in Ukraine.
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