The Russians are not giving up their attempts to destroy the Ukrainian gas infrastructure in order to leave Ukraine without its own gas. This was stated by Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal during a government meeting, UNN reports.
The enemy keeps trying to destroy our gas infrastructure to leave Ukraine without its own gas. They are targeting production facilities with missiles. Attacks are taking place almost every day. Despite all this terror, the situation in the energy sector remains under control. I am grateful to our power engineers for this
He also noted that Russia continues to launch massive missile and drone attacks against Ukrainian energy facilities.
The enemy is doing this with the sole purpose of causing a humanitarian catastrophe, leaving our cities without heating, water and electricity. In recent days, the enemy has been particularly active in attacking the south of Ukraine: Mykolaiv, Kherson and Odesa. As a result of the attacks, some of these cities were left without electricity and heating
According to him, all responsible departments and energy companies worked 24/7 to repair the damaged equipment.
"We managed to restore heat supply to Mykolaiv within 24 hours. Tens of thousands of people have already had their electricity and heat restored. We are also returning heat to Odesa. Two boiler houses have resumed operation. Hospitals, schools and kindergartens are already heated. Specialists are working to fix internal heating systems in residential buildings," said Shmyhal.
Addendum
On February 20 it was reported that Russian troops carried out a massive drone strike on Ukraine's gas infrastructure at night, damaging production facilities and working to stabilize gas supplies.