Vitality Minister Says Assured Ukraine Will Hold Lights on This Winter

(Reuters) – Ukraine’s vitality minister, reflecting on Saturday on what he has portrayed as the most important repairs marketing campaign to an influence system in trendy historical past, expressed confidence the nation might meet its era wants in the course of the chilly months.

Requested in a televised interview whether or not the nation would have the ability to meet its purpose of offering 1.7 gigawatts of era capability by the heating season, German Galushchenko stated, “We are going to handle to do it.”

He stated he couldn’t give particulars now however that the nation was including energy in methods it had by no means completed earlier than. “I’m very assured that the symbiosis of all actions will result in the truth that we can reliably guarantee provides in the course of the heating season.”

Missile and drone assaults on vitality infrastructure following Russia’s full-scale invasion final 12 months induced sweeping blackouts and water outages for thousands and thousands of Ukrainians in the course of the winter.

Galushchenko stated that whereas the size of any new Russian assaults have been arduous to foretell, Ukraine would have the ability to perform repairs.

(Reporting by Nick Starkov in Kyiv and Elaine Monaghan in Washington; Writing by Elaine Monaghan; Enhancing by Alistair Bell)

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