The government has set a goal for all regions to develop cogeneration to the maximum extent possible, primarily to ensure critical infrastructure, as well as to take measures to ensure energy autonomy in island mode, said Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Sviridenko.
“Each region needs to have such detailed energy development plans and implement them. Everything that can be restored must be restored. Everything that can be protected must be protected, at least with a second level of protection,” Sviridenko said at a meeting with journalists in Kyiv on Friday.
She stressed that this winter is the harshest in many years and one of the most difficult in four years of full-scale invasion.
According to her, in the context of unprecedented shelling by Russia, Ukraine needs much larger stocks of equipment and air defense systems.
“Our air defense is working at full capacity. Energy companies are also working beyond their capabilities. Without the help of our partners in terms of equipment and air defense missiles, we will not be able to defend ourselves as effectively as in previous years,” the prime minister said.
At the same time, she noted that the efforts of the government and local authorities to decentralize energy supply are already yielding results.
