Prime Minister of Ukraine: Missile strikes have damaged all thermal and hydropower

Denys Shmyhal, head of the Ukrainian government, reports that after Russian troops carried out an eighth round of massive missile strikes, all of the thermal and hydroelectric power stations in Ukraine have been damaged.

Shmyhal also wrote on Facebook that “after eight waves of missile attacks” 40 percent of facilities for the country’s high-voltage grid were damaged to varying degrees.

The prime minister said that Ukraine’s Energy Ministry had been instructed to determine and submit for consideration clear priorities for restoring electrical service. The first on that list will be critical infrastructure facilities and hospitals, followed by military-industrial facilities, then enterprises producing essential goods. The residential sector is at the end of the list.

“Each of us must realize that we will go through this winter with significant restrictions on energy consumption,” Shmyhal said.

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In November, after the seventh Russian missile attack on the country, Volodymyr Kudrytskyi, the head of Ukraine’s high-voltage transmission operator Ukrenergo, said that all of Ukraine’s larger thermal and hydropower plants had been damaged.