Atomic power stations are vital to Ukraine after Moscow’s military destroys much of its energy grid and conventional stations
A Ukrainian power company uses billboards in Kyiv to urge people to check the timing of planned blackouts, which now affect most regions of the country for up to eight hours a day. Photograph: Daniel McLaughlinlast week, the season’s first snowfall covered Kyiv and a sight familiar from the last two winters returned to its night-time streets: little pools of light bobbing along icy pavements as people use the torches on their phones to navigate the city during power cuts.
Russia has fired hundreds of missiles and strike drones at Ukraine’s power stations and other parts of the gridDozens injured in Russian missile and drone strikes on Ukrainian citiesfor four senior Russian commanders, including former defence minister Sergei Shoigu, for their role in targeting Ukraine’s critical infrastructure, but the campaign has not stopped.
After similar Russian attacks in August, IAEA inspectors “documented extensive damage to all the substations visited, concluding that the grid’s capability to provide a reliable off-site power supply to Ukrainian NPPs has been significantly reduced,” the agency’s director, Rafael Grossi, said last week.
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