Ukrainian Energy Crews Work Through Winter To Restore Bombed Grid

This is our life now. Workers at a thermal power plant that’s supposed to produce electricity are walking on frozen floors and using firewood to keep warm,

Oleksandr, 52, head of the Production Management Department, told The Associated Press

Potentially, Western countries could also help us with equipment, but their power grids have different characteristics,

Oleksandr said

This is our front, some of the guys have a front in the east, our front is here. Our task is to ensure that our Ukraine has electricity, that it functions in full,

said Serhii

We've been set back six months,

said Oleksandr, 52, a senior worker at the plant

When there are attacks, we stay here even though we know there are missiles coming at us ... To say we're not afraid is not true because we are all living, normal people and we are afraid,

said Serhii, 52, a shift leader who has worked at the plant for over 30 years

You have to sit and wait while monitoring the trajectories of whatever was fired, but the power units keep working so we cannot just leave, we stay in the control room,

said Dmytro, 41, a power unit operator at the plant

Rafael GrossiiAEA Director General

Ukraine’s energy infrastructure is extremely fragile and vulnerable, putting nuclear safety at great risk,

Rafael Mariano Grossi, the head of the agency, the I.A.E.A., said in a statement released late Thursday

As of now, due to the morning shelling and the use of hourly power cut schedules, 523,000 subscribers in the Lviv region are left without electricity,

said Maksym Kozytskyi, the Lviv Regional State Administrator, in a Telegram post

All critical infrastructure that lost power has been switched to generators,

said Ivan Rudnytskyi, head of the Volyn administration

German Galushchenkoenergy Minister

Attacks on energy facilities are happening all over Ukraine,

Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko stated in a Facebook post

They were helped by their crazy allies, including from North Korea,

he wrote

Each such attack proves that air defense systems are needed now in Ukraine, where they save lives, and not in storage bases,

he said

German Galushchenkoenergy Minister

Once again, the energy sector is under massive enemy attack. Attacks on energy facilities are taking place across Ukraine,

German Galushchenko said in a Facebook post

The United States would continue to arm Ukraine and strengthen its defenses to ensure Russia will make no further advances and will not attack again after a cease-fire or peace agreement,

Kellogg's research paper for the Trumpist America First Policy Institute think tank said

The simple truth is that Ukraine is not currently mobilizing or training enough soldiers to replace their battlefield losses while keeping pace with Russia's growing military,

said the official, speaking on the condition of anonymity

If Ukraine doesn't want to negotiate, fine, but then accept the fact that you can have enormous losses in your cities and accept the fact that you will have your children killed, accept the fact that you don't have 130,000 dead, you will have 230,000-250,000,

he said