Herus warns of difficult period: Ukraine's energy system under pressure at least until mid-February

Andrii Herus, the head of the parliamentary committee on energy and housing and communal services, said that the next few weeks will be difficult for the Ukrainian energy system, and the situation with electricity and heat supply in a number of regions may worsen.

Andrii Herus reported this on Radio Liberty.

"You want to ask, will we have a more difficult period than now? The next 30 days will be difficult for us. I sometimes hear that from January 15 it will get better or from next week it will get better - and at the end they add in small letters: provided that there are no new attacks.

But with a high probability there will be new attacks. Therefore, this "good news" - it is, of course, good, but if you ask my opinion, then I believe that the situation will be difficult by February 15-20. It may become easier when the frosts subside a little - somewhere towards the end of this week," Herus said.

According to him, the most difficult situation is currently observed in the Odesa Region and Odesa. Recently, deterioration has been recorded in Kharkiv. The situation in Dnipro, Kryvyi Rih, Chernihiv, Sumy, Zaporizhzhia and Kyiv also remains difficult.

At the same time, he noted that a gradual improvement is possible due to the increase in daylight hours and more active work of solar generation.

"Then a longer daylight begins, the sun is higher, solar generation will start working better - it is distributed and available in many regions, so it will start helping immediately.

And we will feel it - somewhere from February 15-20 in the afternoon we will have more electricity. The next 30 days will be difficult. We need to understand this and, if possible, prepare for it," Andrii Herus concluded.

As a reminder, the aggressor country of russia is preparing another massive attack against the energy infrastructure with possible strikes on facilities and networks serving Ukrainian nuclear power plants.