2024-04-09 02:50:12
“I spoke with the Minister of Energy of Lithuania. They offered to use their thermal power plants, which are closed. To use them as donors, that is, offered the opportunity to dismantle and get the spare parts we need,” on national television on April 7. said the Minister of Energy of Ukraine.
The politician added that the best defense of Ukraine’s critical energy infrastructure is still to equip Ukraine with adequate air defense systems.
It is said that such a Lithuanian proposal is a response to the calls of Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Shmyhalis to provide spare parts for power plants to the post-Soviet Western allies. “It would help us a lot if we had spare parts so that we could restore the damaged power plant units and restore the capacity of some power plants to work,” he said in an interview with an Estonian publication.
Portal lrytas.lt applied to the Ministry of Energy for clarification of these ideas. Its representatives drew attention to the fact that since the beginning of the war caused by Russia, Lithuanian energy companies supported their colleagues in Ukraine. “We see that throughout the war, energy facilities became the targets of rockets and drones of the country’s aggressor, leaving local residents without electricity, heat, and water,” the comment mentions.
“Lithuanian and Ukrainian energy experts (at various levels – from politicians to experts) continue intensive cooperation in rebuilding the energy infrastructure of the warring country. Currently, a group of energy specialists from a warring country is visiting our country. This is their second visit to Lithuania. During such meetings, the need is discussed, and then transfer opportunities will be coordinated, transportation and other issues will be resolved,” the representatives teach.
It is emphasized that both the previous support measures and the planned support projects are carried out without causing risks to consumers in Lithuania due to electricity or heat supply. Only unused instruments are transferred to Ukraine.
“For example, Ukrainian experts will visit Vilnius’ third thermal power plant (TE-3), which has been operating since 2016. is no longer used for electricity and heat energy production, and in 2022 operation of TE-3 units was terminated”, the ministry says.
As a result of Russia’s intensified attacks against Ukraine’s important infrastructure in recent weeks, according to the calculations of the Prime Minister of Ukraine, about 80 percent of the infrastructure was destroyed. Ukrainian heat energy production facilities.
In late March, Russia launched its biggest attack on the country’s energy infrastructure since the start of the invasion. As The Kyiv Independent reports, about 1.5 million Ukrainians were left without electricity.
A week later, the state-owned energy company Centrenergo announced that Russian troops had destroyed the Zmiiv thermal power plant in the Kharkiv region in a recent large-scale attack. At the time, Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terechov said the attacks had destroyed “almost all” of the region’s critical energy infrastructure.
From 2022 Lithuania allocated 1.54 percent to support Ukraine. of its gross domestic product, according to the Ukraine Support Tracker data of the Kiel Institute.
The Ministry of Energy estimates that up to now Lithuania’s total national support (generators, transformers, etc.) to the Ukrainian energy sector already exceeds 13.4 million. euros.
2024-04-09 02:50:12