Ukraine's electricity operator says the country is facing the "most serious energy crisis in its history"

MADRID, 16 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Ukraine's state electricity operator, Ukrenergo, said Wednesday that the country's energy crisis is the "most serious in history" after Russia carried out new attacks against the Ukrainian electricity grid.

"The situation is serious, the most serious in history, but we are maintaining control of the system. The enemy hit the Ukrainian power grid again: objects all over the country were attacked," he said in a statement on the Facebook social network. Ukrenergo CEO Volodimir Kudritski.

According to Kudritski, this is the sixth "massive attack" that Russian troops have carried out on the country's energy infrastructure since the beginning of October, maintaining that the last one was perhaps the largest of all with close to a thousand missiles.

"Each missile flew with the aim of plunging Ukraine into darkness," said the general director of the Ukrainian energy company in his letter, stating that the Russian attack would have been carried out "with cynical calculation", since it takes place at the beginning of the consumption peak.

However, Ukrenergo has reported that the energy industry "is already rehabilitating" facilities and working on repairs to ensure supply.

"I will say it one more time: the situation is serious and the main task of Ukrenergo at the moment is to maintain the controllability of the power system. Emergency shutdowns are used for this purpose. If we implement a shutdown, then the system is still controlled. What we are protecting everyone from is the collapse of the energy system that the enemy expects," Kudritski said.

"There is no country in the world that can prepare for missile attacks on the energy system of this scale. My foreign colleagues constantly inform me about this. We will stand up, we will find ways to supply electricity, we will work all night and all the days ahead. There is little pleasure in being the prime target of a terrorist country's missile stockpiles, but they will not break us."