“These are deliberate Russian attacks on our power plants and the entire energy network,” he said, noting that it has destroyed all of Ukraine’s thermal power plants and much of its hydroelectric capacity.
“This is how (President) Putin is preparing for winter, hoping to torment millions of Ukrainians – ordinary families, women and children, and ordinary towns and villages. Putin wants to leave them in the dark and cold this winter and force Ukraine to suffer and surrender.”
President Zelenskyy asked leaders, gathered in the General Assembly for the annual general debate, to imagine what the situation in their countries would be if 80 percent of their energy systems were destroyed.
“What kind of life will that be?”
More to come…
