A little help from your friends: Russian strikes on power grid forces Ukraine to import electricity
Alina Lavun, 23, a puppet designer of the Kyiv Academic Puppet Theatre, works in her workshop during a partial electricity blackout in Kyiv, following strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure, amid the Russia n invasion in Ukraine. With Russia n attacks on energy infrastructure causing power cuts, Ukraine is depending on its central and eastern European neighbours to keep the lights on.
Instead, it joined the western network at record speed, which then-EU energy commissioner Kadri Simson hailed as"a year's work in two weeks".Ukraine's electricity imports from neighbours Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania and Slovakia have been growing steadily for months as Russian attacks on its power system have intensified.
The imports based on bilateral agreements have enabled Ukraine to limit power cuts to certain hours of the day.The Green Deal Ukraine think tank has said the country produced 96 800GWh of power in 2023, down from 103 800GWh in 2022. German development agency GIZ provides consultancy on savings and resilience, and sends over equipment and material.A Ukrainian firefighter intervenes to extinguish a fire at a hardware superstore following a Russian strike, in Kharkiv. The Czech Republic has shipped dozens of cogeneration units producing electricity and heat from gas.
Bulgaria is in talks with Ukraine to sell two Russian-made nuclear reactors at a discount to help it renew its energy infrastructure.
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