In recent months, Russia has rained missiles on Ukraine to try to take out power grid equipment and facilities that keep lights on, space heaters warm and computers running
. It’s part of Moscow’s strategy to cripple the country’s infrastructure and freeze Ukraine into submission this winter.
About half of Ukraine’s energy supply network is still damaged following widespread attacks on Nov. 23, when DTEK declared “the power system failed.” That doesn’t diminish their constant state of alert. When the missiles started dropping mid-afternoon on Nov. 23, the crew rushed to an unspecified emergency site, assessed the damage, and quickly determined what repairs needed to done within a span of a few hours. A second “brigade” was then called in to do the actual repair work.
The infrastructure-targeted strikes aren’t as perilous as the attacks of the opening phase of the war, when Russian forces advanced to the outskirts of Kyiv and some neighbourhoods of the capital before being pushed back. At that time, repair work was done under fire. In light of the new Russian strategy, “when we hear that there is an incoming strike from Russia, we already know they’re going to aim at the power supplies, or power lines,” Braharnyk said.
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