REUTERS
State-run Ukrainian energy company Ukrenergo will be able to eliminate the pylon explosions effects in Kherson region within four days, said Ihor Bosko, chief of Kherson regional backbone grids, according to the website of the regional state administration.
It will take 40 minutes for Ukrenergo’s repair teams to get to the scene from their base in Nova Kakhovka upon a corresponding order the company Headquarters to restore and replace damaged pylons of high-voltage power lines, which supplied electricity to the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Bosko said Sunday at a meeting of the operational staff chaired by head of the Kherson Regional State Administration Andriy Putilov.
"The equipment and spare parts are ready. Ukrenergo’s brigades are ready to eliminate the effects of the explosions within four days," said Bosko.
"When this happens, depends on the outcome of negotiations between the initiators of the [energy] blockade and the government,” said Bosko.
Read alsoUkrenergo vows to partly restore power supply to Crimea within one dayThe agreement has been reached with the activists of the energy blockade at the moment on the admission of the team of technicians to examine de-energized lines, in order to be able to monitor the condition of grids," the report says.
As UNIAN reported earlier, the two out of the four transmission pylons on the administrative border between mainland Ukraine and Russian-occupied Crimea, which were damaged by blasts in the early hours of November 20, were destroyed completely late on Saturday, November 21, according to reports in social networks.
The four transmission pylons belong to the power grids supplying electricity to Crimea and some areas in Ukraine's Kherson and Mykolaiv regions.
"As a result of the damage to the lines and substations, the electric grid operator has been forced to halt the electricity supply to two districts in [Ukraine's] Kherson region and to Crimea. What is more, there is a risk that 40% of households in Kherson and Mykolaiv regions may suffer power failures," the statement said.
The Crimean occupying authorities have announced Monday, November 23, will be a bank holiday on the peninsula due to a total power blackout after the transmission lines in the south of mainland Ukraine that supplied electricity to Crimea were destroyed in the early hours of November 22.
Almost 2 million people were cut off power supply.