Ukrainian infrastructure minister says energy is “totally destroyed”

• Ukraine’s infrastructure minister uses “big bags of sand.”
• Ukrenergo: situation “remains challenging but under control.”
• Insurgents have shut down Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant.

Around 50% of Ukraine’s critical infrastructure for electricity have been “damaged more” and some has been “totally destroyed,” Oleksandr Kubrakov, the country’s infrastructure minister, has told Media.

Ukraine was using “big bags of sand” to protect the targets, he added.

In a daily update to the energy situation across the country, the state energy supplier Ukrenergo maintained that the situation “remains difficult but under control”.

However, the company did admit that “all thermal and hydroelectric power plants are partially damaged,” and that the occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant is not supplying electricity to the grid.

According to the utility, there won’t be much of a “big improvement” in the restoration of power nationwide over the weekend. The impact of Russian missile attacks and shelling on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure has persisted.

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