Ukrainians must be ready for all possible scenarios in the spring and summer due to Russian attacks. Specifically, they need to get their generators and power banks ready. At the same time, power engineers will do everything they can to prevent this situation.
Funds from Ukraine's Energy Support Fund, which currently has more than €40 million, will be used to restore Kharkiv Oblast's energy infrastructure, which was severely damaged by a Russian attack on the night of 21-22 March.
Preparing for a new attack on the energy system, Ukraine will manufacture or order 100 new high-voltage transformers to replace those destroyed by Russian attacks, most of them are stored abroad. Source: The Economist Quote: "One hundred new high-voltage transformers have been ordered, half to be produced domestically and half procured abroad; but attacks on Ukrainian factories have meant that few domestic ones have actually been made.
Blackmail by Russian occupiers at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) has recently escalated because of the counteroffensive by Ukrainian forces. Source: Herman Halushchenko, Minister of Energy of Ukraine, on air during the 24/7 national joint newscast, quoted by Interfax-Ukraine Quote: "Now it is quite obvious that there is a certain escalation in this blackmail by Russia, and I think it is definitely connected with the development of the counteroffensive.
Ukraine has secured the European Commission’s support for its efforts to synchronize its national power system with the European Union's ENTSOE and is moving steadily toward completing the process in 2023. Ukrinform.