Occupiers destroy energy facility which powered right bank of the Dnipro River in Kherson region

OLEKSII PAVLYSH – MONDAY, 14 NOVEMBER 2022, 20:25

The occupiers have "almost destroyed" the energy facility that  served the whole right bank of the Dnipro River in Kherson Oblast and most of Mykolaiv Oblast.

Source: Volodymyr Kudrytskyi, the head of Ukrenergo, national energy company of Ukraine

"The energy facility which supplied the whole right bank of the Dnipro River in Kherson Oblast and a big part of Mykolaiv Oblast was almost completely destroyed. It does not exist anymore. Two autotransformers, 250 tonnes each, were blown up. 

In the relay protection hall, a compressor room, an accumulator hall – whatever was not destroyed by the explosions was later shelled and ruined. A desperate anger on the part of the occupiers before their flight from the right bank of the Dnipro River in Kherson Oblast was reflected in a couple of hectares of land. They are a cunning horde which only knows how to ruin", Kudrytskyi stated.

Kudrytskyi reported that, despite this, Ukrenergo together with the Kherson Oblast Military Administration, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine and the Kherson Oblast Energy Company are "already working" on the plans for supplying the liberated Kherson region with electricity from two neighbouring oblasts.

"It will not be easy – the sappers are already examining high-voltage lines that run through the territories where until very recently there was still heavy fighting. The extent of landmine contamination is very high there. We are working with caution but are wasting no time. Most of the liberated Kherson region has been without power since 6 November. We are doing everything within our power to supply people with electricity in accordance with the prepared back-up schemes as soon as possible.

This weekend, we gave our foreign partners the list of equipment needed for the Kherson region. Polish and French system operators have responded, and the equipment is on its way to Ukraine. Thank you, friends", Kudrytskyi added.

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