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The European Commission has transferred a thermal power plant from Lithuania to Ukraine, which is expected to provide electricity to around one million Ukrainians.
This was reported by the press service of Ukraine’s Ministry of Energy.
“The complex operation, which lasted 11 months, involved 149 shipments of equipment with a total weight of 2,399 tonnes. Of these, 40 were oversized loads, including extremely heavy transformers and stators weighing about 172 tonnes each,” the ministry said.
Support from Poland’s Government Agency for Strategic Reserves played a key role in ensuring the complex transportation of these components. The supplied equipment helped carry out emergency repairs in several regions of Ukraine where energy infrastructure had been severely damaged by Russian strikes.
“We are extremely grateful to our partners in Lithuania, Poland, and the entire European community for helping us obtain critically needed equipment. It has made it possible to restore important energy capacities and strengthen the resilience of the power system,” said Acting Energy Minister of Ukraine Artem Nekrasov.
European Commissioner for Preparedness, Crisis Management and Equality Hadja Lahbib emphasized that the delivery of this power plant will help provide electricity and heat to one million people facing the fourth winter of Russia’s aggressive war.
According to the Ministry of Energy, this logistics operation is part of the EU’s comprehensive response to Russia’s aggression against Ukraine since February 2022, coordinated through the EU Civil Protection Mechanism.
To date, overall EU support for Ukraine’s energy sector has helped millions of people, including the delivery of 9,500 generators and 7,200 transformers. In total, the Commission has allocated more than €1.2 billion for humanitarian assistance programs in Ukraine and delivered over 160,000 tonnes of aid.
Earlier, energy ministers of the G7 countries condemned Russia’s latest attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure and confirmed their readiness to assist Kyiv in restoring the power system. Germany has also allocated €100 million for repairs to Ukraine’s energy system, with the funds to be channeled through the KfW development bank to the Ukraine Energy Support Fund.
