OUR Ukraine has no plans to carry out further blackouts unless there are further attacks on infrastructure as it has managed to build up some reserves of electricity, the country’s energy minister said yesterday after months of power supply problems caused by his bombings. Russia.

“There will be no restrictions on electrification, provided that the Russian Federation does not strike at infrastructure facilities,” the Minister of Energy said. Hermann Galushchenko via Telegram. “Breaks will only be made for the purpose of making amends.”

After numerous defeats on the battlefield and the winding down of its troops in eastern and southern Ukraine, Russia began bombing the country’s energy infrastructure in October, leaving millions of people without electricity and heating for several days.

The temperature during the winter months in most of the territory of Ukraine often falls well below zero. OUR Galushchenko acknowledged that this heating season has been extremely difficult.

“But our engineers managed to save the energy system, and for the third week in a row, electricity generation covers consumption needs, we have reserves,” he added. Galushchenko.

Ukraine, which does not manufacture power generators itself, has imported and received thousands over the past year, with the US promising 10 more on Friday. billion dollars to cover the energy needs of Kyiv.

At the same time, the head of the state-owned network management company Ukrenergo, Vladimir Kudritskysaid that work to eliminate the damage caused to the infrastructure of the city of Odessa at the beginning of this month had been completed.

“From tonight there is more light in Odessa,” he wrote. Kudritsky V facebook. “The crews that worked to restore the networks are moving to other facilities.”

On February 4, a fire at an overloaded power plant left hundreds of thousands without electricity.

^{Source: APE-MEB, Reuters}