this morning at this hour we have donated uah 30,000 for our military, dear friends, in order to save their lives, and now we will honor the moments of silence of those who are no longer with us because of russia. let's observe a moment of silence in memory of the ukrainian military and civilian citizens of ukraine who died in the war started by russia.

energy, is a total blackout possible, what are the forecasts, will there be more emergency shutdowns, people told us how they are relearning to live without electricity, and the government is also raising tariffs, but does this money go to... restoration. what is happening with the mobile connection? ukrainians complain that the mobile internet does not work and it is impossible to make calls, although mobile operators should have already stocked up on generators. what you have with light and communication, write in the comments under this video. well, kadyrov's fighters publish a video from a ukrainian village in the sumy region. does this mean that the offensive has begun and there is already the first occupied village. this is svoboda ranok, my name is kateryna nekrecha and we are starting. the week in

ukraine begins with blackouts. ukrenergo today plans to introduce other restrictions. hourly shutdown schedules will be introduced in the evening from 4 to 10 p.m. it is planned to limit the supply of electricity both for private and industrial consumers. objects of critical infrastructure, as they say in ukrenergo, will be revived despite the restrictions. energy experts promised to improve the situation with light due to the fact that one of the nuclear units started working this weekend. after scheduled repairs. as a result of the russian shelling, as of now, the ukrainian energy industry has lost 50% of its power regeneration capacity. only 27% actually work large thermal power plants. all others are 73% destroyed or damaged and not working. ukrainian prime minister denys shmyhal told about this in a telethon. it is interesting that last week the financial times published an article under the headline russia destroyed more than half. of ukraine's energy sector, which

specifically mentions that electricity production in ukraine has significantly decreased. an unnamed ukrainian official in the article predicts that in winter ukrainians should prepare for life in the cold and darkness. the ministry of energy called this article manipulative and one that spreads the narratives of the enemy, although we hear from the prime minister similar theses that were described in the article. despite the fact that this weekend the situation with light in some cities. has improved, people are again learning to adapt to blackouts and live in economy mode. the situation is different in different regions, some have already gotten used to the schedules since last year, and for some it is a big problem, because the work is directly related to uninterrupted power supply. our correspondents in dnipro, kyiv and lviv asked residents how the power was turned off affects their lives and whether they were ready for such changes. and this is what people answered us. i note that this is not ... a representative

survey, but simply the opinions of people with whom my colleagues managed to communicate, they did not buy anything, we have enough, they did not buy anything, we have enough time, while the energy is supplied, we prepare everything when they turn on, we warm up, it’s inconvenient, but it’s such a time in the country, but it’s such a time in the country, we understand everything, as long as the graphics hold up, otherwise you don’t understand when they turn it off, when it’s... turned on, because it’s i say, yes, if the schedules were normal, i say, they would have been drawn up, i say, that’s why i somehow adjusted, inconvenient, little child, equipment, very inconvenient, maybe you will buy some batteries, somehow cook , not yet, not yet, but then we’ll see,

in the evening he is afraid, although we have light bulbs and we turn on the flashlight in the evening, it is still fear, and then he remembers for half a day that the light was turned off for us, this is a forced step, but still, still. of course, my house has never had puppies excluded from the factory, so i don't know yet well, in general, do you prepare somehow, if it happens, but no, not everything is completely set in stone, you understand, it happened like that, we have to survive it, what will we change, well, yes, well, it happened, we have to somehow, well, we still have electric stoves, in we have electric stoves, it's very difficult for us, i got up in the morning, there is no light,

it's rougher, how do i cope, i rest, i look at the news on my phone, well, somehow it significantly affected the change in your life, i don't know, in principle. had an effect, had an effect, and it’s so good, you won’t get out one more time, because you have to go down and up from the ninth floor it's a little difficult, and you depend on light for that, yes, i'm a hairdresser, i need a hair dryer, and unfortunately, it hasn't been invented electrically yet, but how do you cope with it, you bought a generator, maybe not, we work for two hours, no purchased a generator, now we need to look for a place where we can find light to work and study. people in different ukrainian cities shared their experience, and now we will expertly talk about energy problems, ivan plachkov, minister of fuel and energy of ukraine 99th year, 2005th the sixth year, and the president of the all-ukrainian energy assembly joins our broadcast, i congratulate you, thank you for joining,

i congratulate you, good health to everyone, good health to you, mr. ivan, well, let's talk about light, or rather about its absence, which prospects now, when the schedules... are not applied every day, not in all cities, not in all regions, there may be a feeling that the situation is improving somewhat, that is, there is less deficit, is this assessment of the situation wrong? no, you know, well, well, in general, we understand the situation is very complicated, but what, what, what improves, worsens, this is such a natural phenomenon, everything depends on the weather, on the level of consumption. depending on whether it is weekends or working days, the composition of the generating equipment changes, which is currently working, which means that the units are taken out for repair, about a week, two weeks ago, two power units were taken out to nuclear power plants, then some were repaired, put into

operation, the same on others, repairs are being carried out at substations, so the situation is changing, i will simply explain why this is so. it originates from the fact that we had a margin of safety in peaceful times energy sector, from the point of view of generating capacities, power transmission lines, substations and so on, about 40%, 40%, we had equipment in reserve that could be put into operation at any time and removed from the equipment that needs to be repaired and the consumer is did not feel, today on... the eve of the new year last year we had a margin of safety of 5-7%, now we have a margin of safety of 30%, minus 30%, minus 30, if not more, and this means when the power engineers carry out some work , they

need to output, input and so on, the consumer it is felt, today for the shortage of generating capacity, it is covered, partially due to the import of electricity 1.7 gigawatts, why do i say reserve, we do not have capacity in the reserve, so this situation will be permanent, and therefore we need to get used to it, why, because the power engineers, if there is an opportunity, they immediately improve now, there are two options, situations, look at the future, the power engineers make... the schedules are so tight, where there will be no electricity for 4 hours, there for 3 hours, as long as it takes , and withstand these schedules regardless of anything, or if there is an opportunity

to do these these these these shutdowns, they they are exactly them and shutdowns they apply, whether they are an opportunity, they, they. i believe that it is better to make really such graphs and enlarge them. informativeness of the population, just more information, to find means for people to know when there will be a blackout and er, when it is, well, i, i, later, they will provide electricity, unfortunately, this is a lack of proven information to the population today, well, me, me i am sure, now they are working on this and the situation improvement well, it should also be said that there are also chatbots, for example, when you subscribe to them, you receive information that soon

there will be a disconnection, of course, it is possible that there is an older generation or people who do not have access to smartphones, they obviously can't use it, by the way, later on on the air we will talk about mobile communication, and now about energy storage, i want to ask you, mr. ivan, you said that you are, well, a supporter so that these disconnection schedules, they were are clearer there, and i understand... what you mean is that even if these graphs exist, when there is no obvious problem with the light, there are experts, i've heard them say that energy imports from the european union , but it is not able to cover the entire deficit that currently exists in ukraine, and regarding the accumulation of electricity, is it even possible at the moment, again i heard opinions that it is impossible, because there is no place to accumulate this energy, that is, relatively speaking, they cannot now in ukraine, the energy industry should make it so that to collect a little. do you have this

energy for the fall, for the winter, for some more difficult periods, it is impossible and is it impossible only in ukraine, or technically, in principle, in the long run, it could be done? no, well , it is possible, and it is done, there are several, several ways to do it, for example, the best today and effective, efficient accumulation system, this is... dniester and at the south ukrainian station, this is when at night, when consumption we have them, we have kyivska gs, it is decreasing, they are working in special pumps, they pump water into a special reservoir, and when there is a need for this electricity, this water produces electricity on hydroturbines, there are other such ... battery systems, but they are very expensive, and we can't do it now, we

don't have the funds, and we don't we can build them, that's why we have them, they work, but they still won't be able to compensate for the deficit that exists today, we need basic capacities, we have them, this is a nuclear power plant, there are maneuvering capacities, this is... hydroelectric power stations, there are also shunting power stations - these are thermal power stations that worked on coal, but unfortunately, most of them are 70% there, today they are destroyed, and there are sources of electricity storage at hydroaccumulating power plants, but this is when the system is balanced, unfortunately, it is not balanced in our country today, and such a storage... it today , the european energy system works and we constantly

import electricity from the european energy system, but unfortunately it is also limited to 1.7 gw, well, it is a very complicated technical scheme, structures, complex complex, well, it takes a lot of time to explain everything, since , how do you do it? explain, one thing is clear that there is no scheme that would work constantly, due to the fact that the situation is changing, plus russian shelling, it is every day, every hour, ukrainian energy companies have to respond to this situation, but tell me about the repair work, there were planned repair works of the units of the nuclear power plant, and i understand that when these planned works were taking place, then there was somehow less light and energy supply, now these planned repair works, how can they, can they have a positive effect on the energy crisis, or from those repairs... is changing situation, could there be more capacity than there is now? unfortunately, no,

look, a nuclear power plant is a nuclear power unit, 1,000 megawatts, for example, it is a very complex, very, very technological system, it must be constantly maintained, constantly repaired, and there are very specific requirements for nuclear safety, which must be carried out . appropriate work to ensure radiation safety at nuclear power plants is being carried out in peacetime. traffic and these blocks must be released there once a year, sometimes twice for some preventive repairs, there are current repairs, medium repairs, capital repairs, there are a lot of all these requirements for the operation of the nuclear power unit, so we are forced

to do it, and it is better to do it in the summer, when the situation is that we can... if we somehow survive this deficit , that is why these nuclear plants must be repaired now, they are preparing for the heating season, the next one, sometimes it is necessary to reload the fuel at nuclear plants, increase the production of electricity, of course, this is impossible, the main thing is to ensure that these power units work for nominal power, if it has... a nominal power of 1000 mw, it is necessary that it should preferably produce 100 megawatts for that period, especially the spring-winter maximum, and not 700, 800 or 600, for some reason technical, mr. ivan, there is a history of raising tariffs since june, it

happened, what is this money used for, does it go , for example, to ensure that the situation was better in the fall and... in the cold period, that is, there are two questions, really, on that the money is going and does the increase in tariffs guarantee that the situation there in winter will not be so critical, or a total blackout is possible in general, despite the fact that people are paying, they will now pay more money for tariffs, look, we have some mythology about tariffs for the population, i 'll just tell you a few such things. during all the years of independence, tariffs for the population in ukraine for electricity, heat and water had nothing to do with economic feasibility, cost price, the cost of this electricity, tariffs were set exclusively through the electoral, rating

political component, exclusively, the country passed on... market principles, ukraine has a market economy, a market economy, there are such important social things as medicine and food, please tell me why we do not fix the prices for these social things, but decided only on electricity, heat and water, we removed these three services from the market economy, and tariffs for... energy in ukraine, they have always been half the cost, at least, over the years, and they have always been the lowest, even in the world , except for turkmenistan, this kind of know-how was in ukraine, and it exists to this day, and the tariffs were changed once there for 5 years, for 6

years, for three years, and everything is the same, the government, we have constant elections, then parliamentary... dents and so on, well, we let's not compare now with the war, i'm just explaining what our relationship is, and then, when it was necessary to raise the tariffs all the same, the tariffs were raised in leaps twice by 2.5 times, and this infuriated, of course, people, well, how am i crying today there is so much, and tomorrow there will be 2.5 times more, so it is not correct, it was wrong, a wrong approach to tariffs, and already today... already forced, because the tariffs, they did not correspond to the cost price twice, if today the cost price is about 7 hryvnias, then we paid there, well, six, let's say, we, we paid there there are 38 hryvnias, 40 hryvnias, no matter how much, and they are forced to raise, and they do not cover everything, and taking into account the fact that

the percentage of consumers in the population is 40%. everything is equal, everything is equal, if it doesn't cover all the costs of the energy companies, yes, it will help, it will help the energy companies a lot, but it won't solve the problem question, all the same, the population does not pay as much for electricity as it costs, therefore, taking into account the amount of repair work, reconstruction, restoration, in order to even prepare... to stabilize the situation today in the summer, not to mention the fact that to prepare for the next heating season, of course, this money will not be a very important explanation. thank you for this, this is a really important explanation from you, as an expert, because there are really many different questions that arise , and you know, during conversations, at stops in people and in the comments that the authorities want

to make money, so to speak, here it is important to have an expert understanding of what, i apologize, i just want to say in a few words how tariffs should be formed, mr. ivan, for the next time already, because now we will talk about we talk about in general about this crisis and then we will talk about mobile communication, how it affects, i thank you for your help. ivan plachkov, minister of fuel and energy of ukraine in 1999, 2005 and 6, and the president of the all-ukrainian energy assembly was as a guest of freedom morning. well, during emergency or planned blackouts, ukrainians noticed that the internet and mobile communications work intermittently. this was the case last year, but since then companies should have stocked up on generators to power the station. the ministry of digital transformation says that together with mobile operators... they have prepared for the scenario of local blackouts, but in the event of a local blackout, communication will be maintained for another three days. the ministry of digital affairs says that it will allow

calling and sending sms messages, and now communication problems during power outages allegedly occur due to the fact that people massively switch to mobile internet during blackouts, which leads to a sharp load on networks. mobile operators. so, will there be communication, what can be counted on in case of emergency power outages. including, let's talk further. mykhailo mykolyuk, head of retail network kyivstar joined our broadcast. mr. mykhailo, i congratulate you, thank you for joining. good morning, kateryna. greetings to all listeners of radio saturday. this is an important question because we all have mobile phones, well, for the most part, yes, i wonder who still has, for example, a landline connection, but we somehow have... precisely mobile communication, mobile internet, and when it disappears, this poses a big problem. so, just as mobile communication and mobile internet are affected by planned and emergency power outages,

how critical is the situation now, what should ukrainians prepare for? let's go in order, first it is worth noting that these long power outages, they affect the operation of mobile and fixed communication equipment, because it needs regular power supply, and we as... kyivstar use all technical possibilities to meet the needs of subscribers even during a blackout. and to understand the first large-scale blackout that you remember, which took place in 2022, in fact we invested more than uah 1 billion to make the network energy-independent, and to understand where all these investments went, these are the first three main factors: firstly, these are accumulators, the so-called akb, we have already installed more than 110 thousand of them. the network, secondly, generators, the network already has more than 200 generators, both stationary and mobile, and the third is sources of uninterrupted

power supply for fixed communication, the so-called ups. so those are the three things we've already done, but what you asked is very important, actually any battery needs time to recharge. technicians say that from four to six, sometimes up to eight hours are needed... to fully restore the charge batteries, for a ups it's 8 hours, so when the blackouts are unpredictable like you said, or an emergency, those batteries actually don't have a chance to fully recharge in order to keep the telecom network going, ugh, that is mykhailo, if there is an emergency shutdown, there is no light there for many hours, four... 6 hours, for example, and more, then, in principle, we should expect that the mobile connection may also disappear? come on, we definitely understand what if

these outages would take place for three, three hours, three or four, and there would be three , four, and three, then it would be easier, because the charge could be restored, and in fact the service would work if restored, if... there will be blackouts to have more, the battery will not have time to charge and the base station will not work, but we are even ready for such a situation and we are working on it in this way: firstly, all the critical facilities of the council are already covered by generators today, the ones i mentioned of national security and defense, i.e. in we have a list of such objects and all of them are covered, which means that, in addition to these installed batteries, the rotors are working on these objects, fuel is meant, and hundreds of workers go to these locations on the days of blackouts, pour fuel and actually ensure the continuity of work

in... super critical situations, that's what you say, if you could conditionally imagine, well, such harsher situations, let's imagine one day, then even uh, at these locations, at these base stations, the connection even during this time. ugh, you can in this regard, advise ukrainians on how to prepare, does it make sense to have two sim cards, or does it already make no sense, how to set up there, maybe phones, then maybe you will be in touch in any case, or a check or? to look for somewhere, i don't know, a conditional mountain somewhere high up there, it would be better to catch a connection, here are some life hacks that people can really know, orientate themselves, in order to somehow react adequately and be in contact yazku, well, first of all, it is worth noting that the first thing is understanding, because it is really necessary to understand that the telecom operator's network depends to a large extent on its energy connection, and this is key,

that is, to belong somewhere. understanding, secondly, this is what we advise, is to really reduce the consumption of so-called heavy content, these are video calls, these are large video files, etc., and at critical moments in these blackouts, switch to such simpler services, ordinary calls, ordinary sms, text in messengers, which load the network no less, you probably noticed that during these recent blackouts it often happens, this is what was in the video and what the ministry of statistics commented that there is a stick. on the phone, but there is no quality service, why? because indeed the load is increasing significantly, the load and traffic from the fixed connection is moving to the mobile one, and the mobile internet network is not planned for the amount of consumption that can be, this is the second, well and the third, we definitely believe in our energy workers and that that they will be able to apply all measures so that these outages have a characteristic vielov. the period yes and had

conditionally three hours was not four or six was and for the network, it will be the optimal element so that it can work and continue to perform its function. and mykhailo, in the end, i will turn to the viewers who write in the comments that they notice that the internet immediately disappears during power outages, these are two such moments, will there be any discounts for mobile communication, or vice versa, maybe due to all these additional costs, there will be an increase in tariffs, and on the other hand, if... it happens that the internet disappears, should i call the mobile operator, leave a request, should everything be there for everyone it is clear that it is connected with the power outage and there is no point in leaving applications, or calling, complaining? let me start with the second one, well, we definitely understand that there is definitely no need to call, we see all the elements of the system very carefully, so we see which one is which base station, how it works, how long the battery lasts,

what the load was at the same time. that is, we notice all this and it is clear that we are taking additional actions on big data in order to improve it, well, for example, we are now continuing to prepare for the winter of 24-25, and to expand parks, both accumulators and batteries, in relation to tariffs, then these funds will be directed to exactly this, because we understand that these additional investments, these millions, and sometimes you see hundreds of millions or billions of hryvnias , they 're just going to... to make them resilient, the technology network has never been more ready for the challenges of war, and now we're actually making extra efforts to make it work in such challenging times. thank you for joining, mykhailo mykolyuk, head of the retail network kyivstar, was a guest of our broadcast, once again i appeal to the audience, write about your experience, maybe your life hacks that you use, because these are questions that will obviously be with us for months. and the majority

of consumers in the city of sumy have had their electricity supply restored. this was reported to ukrenergo in the morning. the blackout there occurred at night due to the shutdown of the power plant for technical reasons. the public and border media reported on the lack of electricity in the lebedyn district center, as well as in bilopyl, which is 8 km from the border with russia. ryzhivka is a village in the sumy region right on the border with russia, under the control of the armed forces of ukraine. the mayor of the bilopol community, yuriy zarko, told the public about this in a public comment, this is how he commented on the statement of the head of chechnya, ramzan kadyrov, that the troops of the akhmat regiment allegedly captured the river, they say, it happened in just three days. kadyrov even posted a video of alleged strikes on this settlement. the footage shows a russian soldier standing in the background of a building and declaring that it is the village council of rezhivka. in the general room.