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By Pavel Polityuk
kyiv (Reuters) – An underground fuel depot in Ukraine was hit on Sunday in the latest wave of Russian missile attacks on military facilities, as the government restored power to cities, ordered imports and imposed slow staff cuts to make in the face of scarcity.
Ukrainian state-owned power company Naftogaz reported the attack on the fuel depot (UGS), but added that combustible materials for consumers were not affected.
Naftogaz general director Oleksiy Chernyshov said appliances broken during the strike were being repaired.
“The situation will not have a serious impact on the operations of the UGS, as the fuel is stored deeply,” Chernychov wrote on Facebook.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said efforts were underway to repair electrical power materials in the regions, with the greatest difficulties in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city.
The country’s energy ministry and suppliers said Ukraine had higher imports of electric power and halted exports after the series of Russian attacks, in which primary power manufacturer DTEK lost 50% of its capacity.
Volodymyr Kudrytskyi, head of Ukrenergo, which operates Ukraine’s transmission lines, said the new wave of measures had at least 90 million euros ($97 million) in damage.
Russia attacked Ukraine’s generation and transmission facilities on Friday, major power outages in many regions and power facilities in three regions of Ukraine were also attacked early Sunday.
POWER OUTAGES, GENERAL POWER OUTAGES
Zelenskiy, in his nightly video on Sunday, said more than 200,000 citizens of Kharkiv, a common target of Russian attacks, were without reliable electricity. The network has been re-established elsewhere, he said.
Zelenskiy said that “strict schedules” for the use of electricity were in place in Kharkiv. DTEK, the largest power company, said periodic forced shutdowns had been imposed at the port of Odessa.
Odessa regional governor Oleh Kiper, in a message posted shortly after on the Telegram messaging app, said parts of the city were without power after damage to infrastructure caused by a new overnight drone strike.
Emergency services were at the scene but did not elaborate.
The Ministry of Energy in a statement: “Imports of 14,900 megawatt hours (MWh) of electricity are expected today. No exports are expected. “
Ukraine loaded 3,300 MWh compared to the day before the March 22 attack, with exports of 2,148 MWh.
“The losses (after Friday’s attack) have already been assessed and the DTEK has lost 50% of its production capacity, we can officially verify this information,” Serhiy Kovalenko, head of the Yasno distribution company, told state television.
Kovalenko said Russia had targeted two parts of the energy system: generation and distribution, affecting both thermal and hydroelectric power plants.
“The enemy has hit the network nodes and transformers,” he said.
The ministry said Russia tried on Sunday to attack power infrastructure in the Lviv region of western Ukraine.
“The equipment jammed and the facility lost power. There were no casualties,” the ministry said.
The head of the Lviv region’s military administration, Maksym Kozytskyi, later said firefighters had used most of the day to bring the blaze under control.
The ministry said lines of force in the Kyiv region were broken and 1,400 families in two settlements were forced.
Naftogaz’s Chernychov said his company is currently working to locate and eliminate the effect of Russian attacks.
Most of Ukraine’s fuel storage capacity is located in the west of the country and can store around 30 billion cubic meters of fuel.
(Reporting by Pavel Polityuk; editing by Leslie Adler)