"The schedules have already become fewer": which TPPs Russia attacked and what is currently happening in the energy sector

She explained why, despite the presence of protective structures, Russian attacks cause serious damage to Ukraine's energy system. "The second level of protection protects only critical elements, such as the most valuable elements.

But it is clear that when an attack is carried out by dozens of drones, with the involvement of cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, the entire territory of the station and substation is attacked, not only critical equipment is attacked, but also other equipment that cannot be physically protected. It takes time to replace and restore it," Grynchuk explained.

She explained that the Ministry of Energy's task is to provide everything necessary to carry out the repair work, and this has been done so far. In particular, an additional number of repair crews were involved, working on the restoration of damaged equipment. "If it were not for the protection that has been done, to replace the equipment that is under the shelters now. . . It would have taken much more time, we would have had a completely different situation in the power system," the minister said.

She admitted that there was indeed significant damage after the last attack, which involved a huge number of ballistic missiles. "The situation in the power system at the moment is that we are operating with a deficit. In order to balance the system, outage schedules are used. You can see that after the last attack, while we stabilized the system, while we repaired the equipment that can be quickly repaired, quickly restored, the schedules have already decreased.

And we are working to minimize them. But the situation continues to be difficult, given that we have a massive combined attack with missiles of various types almost every week type, as well as a huge number of drones aimed at energy facilities," said Grynchuk. In addition, she commented on the statement of "Centrenergo", which said that the company's stations had completely stopped their work. "We have a lot of thermal power plants and thermal power plants in the country.

Let's focus on the statement of Centerenergo that the work of nine stations was stopped - these are Trypilska and Zmiivska. Indeed, there was damage. Colleagues have already started repairs. I will not disclose the successes we are planning, but the restoration work is underway. We very often have cases when the work of the facility is stopped, because we are even in manual "We stop the operation so that there is no additional damage.

Of course, after the attack, when we dig out the rubble, we understand what is happening with this or that equipment, whether it is possible to restore it, which elements need to be replaced. Unfortunately, since the beginning of the war, the "Centrenergo" stations have already stopped their work several times, then the repair work was carried out - it was restored," explained Grynchuk.

We will remind, after the combined attack on the night of November 8, emergency blackouts were introduced in a number of regions of Ukraine. The Minister of Energy of Ukraine Svitlana Grynchuk reported on a massive attack on the Ukrainian energy infrastructure. In particular, the Russians destroyed the Zmiyiv TPP in the Kharkiv region and the Trypil TPP in the Kyiv region. Because of this, it will take weeks to restore energy facilities damaged during the unprecedented shelling of Ukraine.