DTEK said the plant struck on Jan. 4 had been attacked more than a dozen times in the past 2.5 months. In one Russian strike, five workers were injured.
Russia destroyed 50% of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure last winter, DTEK (Ukraine’s largest power utility company) CEO Dmytro Sakharuk said at the annual Ukraine and the World Ahead event organized by NV on Dec. 21.
Ukraine faces another wartime winter with a high risk of Russian attacks on energy infrastructure. But compared to last winter, Kyiv hopes to be better prepared this time around. [Gas in Transition, Volume 3, Issue 10]
Russia’s overnight attack on a front-line Ukrainian region damaged a thermal power plant operated by the country’s energy giant DTEK, the company reported on Nov. 27.