THE Ukraine announced today that the holidays in electrification will worsen until the end of July, following a series of Russian strikes on its energy infrastructure.

Moscow has launched a bombing campaign in recent months, targeting key Ukrainian power generation and distribution centers and destroying, according to President Volodymyr Zelensky, half of the country’s energy capacity.

“In the coming weeks, the situation will become much more difficult than it is today,” warned Volodymyr Kudrytskyi, director of national operator Ukrenergo.

According to the energy provider, maintenance work at nuclear plants, bad weather and insufficient electricity imports will exacerbate already existing shortages, predicting up to 12 hours of outages a day.

Kudrytsky clarified that this “situation will continue until the end of July”.

Kiev has been forced to ask its European neighbors to import electricity to cover shortfalls in the damaged grid.

Energy security and restoring the Ukrainian electricity grid were among 10 points in President Zelensky’s peace plan, discussed at a peace conference in Switzerland last weekend, to which Russia was not invited.

The first campaign of Russian strikes, mainly targeting energy plants, resulted in the winter of 2022-2023 leaving millions of Ukrainians without electricity, water and heating amid very cold temperatures.