We’re joined from Kyiv by the Ukrainian MP Mariia Mezentseva.
Mariia, we’ve just seen pictures of that vast hydropower plant near Kyiv. Why is it such a worry that that’s being targeted now by the Russians?Well, they failed today, and I must say that the very last examinations can tell us that they were not successful. So Russian terrorists were not successful. The scene that I was witnessing right now with other viewers of your channel, at least 52,000 people rescuing in the shelter in metro stations.
We are thinking and we are being told that every winter might be the worst, but we want this winter to be the best one. Probably, if we may say we’re trying to redirect our facilities in terms of energy, we’re trying to make less dependent regions on the centralised system and diversify it where we can. So, for instance, in my home city, Kharkiv, electricity abruptions are way lower than in Kyiv because of the amount of people living here, IDPs that were forced to stay here. So that all matters.
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