Negotiations have already begun.
Ukraine has already begun to take steps in response to the destruction of the country's energy infrastructure by Russian strikes. This was stated by the Minister of Energy Herman Galushchenko in an interview with Reuters.
“The import of electricity may be one of the options that Ukraine pursues in order to overcome the crisis”, – he noted.
According to Galushchenko, some traders have already started negotiations with suppliers.
The minister reported that 30-40% of the total national energy infrastructure was affected by the attacks, which, according to him, were aimed at destroying Ukraine's energy system.
“A goal that, according to him, was not achieved,” – the publication quotes Galushchenko as saying.
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We remind you, the scale of damage caused by strikes on the energy infrastructure of the western regions of Ukraine on October 22 exceeded the consequences of the attack on October 10-12.
As of October 22, as a result of rocket attacks, the light disappeared in Khmelnytskyi region – 672,000 subscribers, in Mykolaiv region – 188,400, in Volyn region – 102,000, in Cherkasy region – 242,000, in Rivne region – 174,790 , in Kirovohradsk – 61,913 and Odesa – 10,500.
In addition to this category of subscribers who were deprived of electricity due to shelling, on October 22, Ukraine also had to apply restrictions on energy supply in Kyiv, Kyivska, Chernihivska , Cherkasy, Zhytomyr, Sumy, Kharkiv, Poltava, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhia and Kirovohrad regions.
At the same time, back in April, Ukraine received official status in the European energy grid ENTSO-E.
Test autonomous operation of the Ukrainian power system was scheduled for February 24-26. On February 24, 2022, at midnight, NEC “Ukrenergo” disconnected the Ukrainian energy system from the networks of Russia and Belarus. On the same day, the Russian army attacked Ukraine. But, despite the active hostilities, NEC “Ukrenergo” successfully conducted tests of the power system in isolated mode for three days.
After completing the tests, Ukrainedecided not to return to the power system to Russia and Belarus, which was supposed to take place on February 27.
Instead, NEC Ukrenergo submitted an application for accelerated synchronization with the European energy system. justify;”>The historic event, when the energy system of Ukraine was fully synchronized with the European energy network ENTSO-E, took place on March 16.
