Russia is striking at the energy system of Ukraine in order to have at least some reason to declare "

He noted that by strikes on civilian infrastructure, Russia opened a new front against Ukraine, trying to provoke a humanitarian catastrophe on a countrywide scale..

“Russia needs a blackout in Ukraine to use this as if the defeat of Europe and all of our democratic resistance. In response, we founded a new format of cooperation and are doing everything for the sake of the country and Ukrainians against blackouts and energy terror,” Zelensky said..

He noted that Ukraine had already withstood hundreds of Russian strikes of varying intensity on the energy sector, but most Ukrainian power plants were damaged or destroyed by shelling..

All hydroelectric power plants, all thermal power plants. God forbid, but imagine what it would mean in your countries. One of the Russian strikes provoked the shutdown of all nuclear power plants.

The automation worked, fortunately, without incident,"

The President added that every time Ukraine tries to restore the technical ability to generate and supply electricity, but still, power engineers have to cut off millions of Ukrainians from supplies due to a critical shortage of electricity.. In particular, Zelensky noted that at the time of his appeal, about 12 million Ukrainians were disconnected from power supply..

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Earlier, Yury Ignat, spokesman for the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said that the Russian military still has enough missiles to carry out regular missile attacks on our country, and the defenders are preparing to repel them..