Kyiv calling for more air defence support as repairs resume after latest strikes, with fears more could be catastrophic
Kyiv on Monday night. The strikes led to emergency blackouts across the country, which have tapered into scheduled power cuts.Kyiv on Monday night. The strikes led to emergency blackouts across the country, which have tapered into scheduled power cuts.earlier this week, which targeted energy infrastructure across the country, further crippling a sector targeted by Moscow multiple times in the spring.
“Even in the best-case scenario there will be scheduled cutoffs. How they look will depend on the temperature. If we have -5 , a schedule of seven hours off, two hours on could be expected,” he said. “It was a major hit and the audit is ongoing,” Mykhailo Podolyak, an aide to Zelenskiy, told the Guardian in Kyiv. “We know what is needed: repair work, and in parallel, more support with air defence,” he said.
But the frequent electricity cuts expected over the winter will probably cause a range of knock-on effects, ranging from affecting elderly people and those with mobility issues who live in high-rise buildings, who will be unable to use elevators if the building has not bought a generator, to reduced functioning of businesses and, as a result, reduced taxes flowing into the budget.
The rules have been liberalised on electricity generation using gas turbines, leading to an increase in small-scale generation, which can be carried out anywhere with access to gas supplies and power cables, with the systems constructed inside shipping containers or small buildings. “Some companies are doing it to cover their own needs, some to connect to the grid and then sell it to the market,” said Prokip.
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