As Russia targets Ukraine's energy grid with missiles and drones, Kyiv is running out of vital parts needed to repair a network that provides electricity for homes, businesses and hospitals
Ukraine has been able to fix much of this infrastructure, sometimes within hours, in efforts that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has described as heroic.
“Energy is another front line in this war,” said Yaroslav Demchenkov, Ukraine’s deputy minister of energy, whose own apartment was recently cut off from power for 40 hours. “Russia will again and again destroy these facilities, so we will need, again and again, [more] equipment.” Russia has hit every part of that chain, damaging and destroying coal and hydroelectric power plants and targeting substations. Nuclear plants in unoccupied Ukraine haven’t taken direct hits, but, is now in Russian hands, depriving the country of capacity that can produce 25% of its energy. The plant currently doesn’t produce nuclear power.
Ukrenergo’s spokeswoman said that Russia is able to target Ukraine’s most important energy infrastructure because Russian officials know the key locations, having shared an integrated power grid with Ukraine, along with Belarus. At first, companies like DTEK were able to cannibalize disused domestic infrastructure to repair damaged assets while also appealing to the former Soviet Baltic states, which used similar systems.Other equipment the Ukrainians increasingly need includes circuit breakers, which protect against too much electric current flowing through a wire or system or short circuits, cables and insulating materials, according to Mr. Timchenko.
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