Russian missile strike again disrupts Ukraine’s power supply

This Thursday, the 26th, a missile attack launched by Russia Against the Ukraine left the country once again in a situation of energy emergency, as reported this Friday, 27, Ukrenergo, national energy regulator. Through a message on its Telegram account, the state-owned company stated that it was forced to carry out emergency power cuts in a total of ten regions, which represent practically the entire territory under Ukrainian control. The company clarified that, although the consumption of electricity in the country is the same as that recorded on Thursday, “the generation capacities of the power plants and the high voltage network were damaged in another attack with Russian missiles”, which ended up interrupting the service. In addition, “the power system was still recovering from the previous series of enemy missile attacks, which caused damage to the power plants’ power units.” As a result of these attacks, “electricity production at operational power stations cannot fully cover consumption,” added Ukrenergo. As well as affecting power facilities, Thursday’s massive Russian missile and drone attack killed at least 11 people in Ukraine.

Thursday’s attack came after several Western countries, including Germany and the United States, pledged to supply Ukraine with heavy tanks. Equipment that Russia promised to burn. Russian Presidency spokesman Dmitry Peskov warned that the West “overestimates the potential that tanks can give the Ukrainian army”. “These tanks will burn, like all the others. They are very expensive”, he stressed. Despite constant bombing, a power “blackout” has not occurred since mid-December, when Kiev and 14 other regions were hit by water or electricity cuts. At the time, Russia was coming off a series of military setbacks and adopted a strategy of undermining Ukraine’s infrastructure. At the time, the head of EU diplomacy, Josep Borrell, condemned Russia’s “indiscriminate terror” against Ukraine. In a new package of sanctions, the bloc banned the export of drone engines to Russia and “to all third countries” that could facilitate these elements to Moscow.

*With information from EFE