Oleksandr Kharchenko, director of the Energy Research Center, believes that if Ukraine won today, it would be possible to abandon power cuts in 2-3 months.  

He said this on December 7 at the Media Center. 

The energy expert noted that three months after the victory in Ukraine, all electricity shutdowns would be abandoned, and it would take only three years to return the power system to the pre-war level. 

"If we imagine that we won today and continue to restore the system, in about 2 weeks all consumers would live in a calm schedule of outages. That is, they would be turned off for about 4 hours a day, the rest of the time there is electricity. Another 2.5 - 3 months, most likely, blackouts would become a thing of the past - everyone would receive electricity around the clock, as it was before the war. But for the complete restoration of the system to the state in which it was before the war - in order to really reliably reserve, restore, high-quality , currently, taking into account the fact that we want to have a more energy-efficient and "green" system, we will need 2.5-3 years," Kharchenko explained.

Missile strikes on the energy infrastructure of Ukraine 

Since October 10, Russia has been massively shelling Ukraine's energy infrastructure with missiles.

On December 5, the eighth mass attack on energy facilities of Ukraine took place.

Then the occupiers fired 70 rockets at our country, 60 of which were shot down. 

"Ukrenergo" reported that after the latest missile attack, Ukraine needs a few days to restore the infrastructure in order to return to scheduled power cuts.

This may happen by the end of this week.

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