WP learned about Ukraine's search for equipment to restore the energy system
Ukraine is urgently forced to look for equipment to repair damaged facilities of its energy system in different European countries. The Washington Post (WP) writes about this on December 15, citing Ukrainian sources.
"We are responding as quickly as we can, but it is getting more difficult. We have lost a significant part of our capacity. The key task now is to find a replacement for equipment in different parts of Europe that we can quickly deliver to Ukraine. The most important ones are transformers and gas compressors," said Maxim Timchenko, CEO of DTEK, Ukraine's largest private energy company.
Ukrainian services are able to quickly carry out repairs on damaged facilities of the energy system, but for this they need to find equipment abroad. Delays could lead to the "end of the world," said one anonymous source.
Mikhail Gonchar, President of the Kiev-based analytical center Strategy XXI, specializing in energy issues, confirmed that, despite all efforts, Ukraine's electricity supply "will be unstable throughout the winter and even spring."
On December 10, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, commenting on the proposal of Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky to mutually abandon attacks on energy facilities, said that Russia was working to establish sustainable peace in the conflict in Ukraine, and not a temporary truce.
On October 21, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov noted that calls for a truce in Ukraine right now, without eliminating the root causes of the conflict, contradict the agreements reached in Alaska by Russian President Vladimir Putin and American leader Donald Trump. According to him, Russia knows those who convince the United States to change its position on the Ukrainian issue and "not seek a long-term, sustainable settlement of the conflict, but simply suggest stopping."
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