in order to find out how the varangians will then act in our direction as well, i.e. it is all a single whole among themselves, but in the long run , the enemy will try to advance us, because at times it also prevents us from reaching the administrative borders of the donetsk-luhansk regions, which were declared just before the start of their russian svo. well, mr. oleg, with your... point of view, what in general caused such breakthroughs by the russians in various directions, because after all, our kurdish operation prevented them from introducing their reserves so, as they planned, that is, now they are essentially fighting without reserves, that is, but they are advancing, why can't we stop them, there are many of them, there are really many of them and there is a lot of humanity in them. not much, well, we don't have much,

this question is clearly not for me, it's not my level, here, let the people who are more involved in these issues, they are more competent, and they have a lot of people, they still have to answer there are still more types of equipment, no matter what, but in the warehouses, in their arsenals of soviet equipment, there are a lot of metalbocktuns, they are being restored, but it is not of the same quality that it was at the beginning of the full-scale offensive, but you ... it is used less, it is striking, it carries a mortal danger for us, it carries out destruction, so this very quantitative component, it really plays its role in battlefield for today. well, thank you, it was oleksandr kalashnikov, the press officer of the 26th artillery brigade named after general hrunju roman dashkevich from the chasovoy yar district, and we say goodbye until next week, and... our espresso tv channel broadcast

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greetings, dear viewers, today on... we invited volodymyr kudrytskyi, he is the ex-head of pradnek ukrenergo. i congratulate you. congratulations. a person who was talked about a lot, there were many rumors, but today we will dismantle all the rumors and try to understand what happened, what are there now, what are the prospects, well specifically for mr. volodymyr, and of course, to a greater extent you are interested in whether we will with light, what are the prospects of our energy system, in fact, on the eve of the autumn-winter period, in advance. no heating season, but we will start anyway since your release, at that time the main

motivation that was voiced was that the objects were not ready for enemy strikes, the shelters did not work, the energy system suffered serious damage, people were sitting without electricity, well, as a logical continuation this story became your dismissal, but in fact no one still understands, and why were you dismissed from your position? well, actually, this is a vivid example of how it is possible... through anonymous telegram channels and youtube podcasts of some bloggers to try to return the media field so as to turn reality upside down , in fact, its fact is as follows: there are about 80 main facilities operated by ukrenergo, ukrenergo is a company that transports electricity through main networks and has several dozen substations that just deliver. electricity from the main network in the oblenergo network, and already about 70 ukrenergo facilities have

storage facilities for the most critical type of equipment, these are autotransformers, these are actually those big machines, such big devices that convert voltage from very high voltage trunk class 330 00 in 75000 in voltage, which is typical for distribution networks that reach every house. and to all 17 million subscribers who currently exist in ukraine. these autotransformers, as many people probably know, were the objects of attack in the 22nd, 23rd and 24th years , the russians also quite actively tried to attack them with shaheds, so anti-shached defenses were built on the absolute majority of our facilities , i would say such cynicism and the paradox of the situation is that on no other object of critical infrastructure in this country, protection of this kind has not been built at the moment, therefore, if

we talk about some bad results of ukrainian energy construction of protection, then surely we should start with the organization that built together with agerst water restoration about 70 structures, probably look at those ob' objects where nothing has been built at all. if we talk specifically about our company, now the trunk network is quite well protected by these engineering fortifications, and by the way, the last mass attack, where more than 100 missiles were used and 130 drones, ugh, she just showed hope. of this protection, why? because there were outages for several days and after that they disappeared, that is, all bottlenecks in the network, after the arrival of several dozen missiles, they were eliminated literally there in 10 days, which of course would have been impossible if the objects were unprotected, you understand what is the arrival of a rocket at any object, whether it is a residential

building, whether it is an industrial object, or even more so an electric power object, so all these ... objections are just an attempt somehow to justify the situation that happened and the attempt, as time has shown, was quite unsuccessful, because well, actually, as you yourself say, the question remains, and i have already commented on this situation, i believe that this is simply an attempt to take control of the company, in that including on the part of the ministry of energy, if, well, in order not to reveal certain secrets to the enemy first of all, but if you say that there is a shelter and there is... a system of shelters that has proven itself on the good side as a result that, of course, in a fairly short time power supply to homes, not only to homes, to various institutions and establishments there was restored, that is, there is a case, you saw those places where, relatively speaking, there was either the fall

of a shaheed, or the debris of a rocket or some other things, and it protected, so there were direct, there were cases of direct hitting of shaheds. in these shelters and shelters worked perfectly, the equipment was saved, and in most cases such equipment was put back into operation on the same day, these shelters, because we talked about it, but somehow such an answer, well, maybe such there is no answer, because it is possible that it cannot be voiced, but i just wonder if there is a certification of these shelters, or if it is done by specialists from the series, it should work, that is, by some such body that would come and say yes, it is certified, it is sheltered. this is, well, not quite a shelter, because it is not the way we should have it, it is certified by an authority, and you know it, it is called the general headquarters, ugh, the design of these shelters, that is, the design decision, they were formed and implemented according to the requirements of the general staff,

who truly understands and knows what the impact of the combat unit is. there are various types of uavs, kamikaze drones of the shachet type, at what angles they can hit, what is the force of the shahed explosion when it comes into contact with the surface of this storage , and so on, that is, all these technical parameters provided by the general staff were implemented in these projects, and data storage projects would also be approved by the general staff. therefore, if we are talking about a certain mark of quality, then it is first of all issued by the general staff. if we talk today about the protection of ukrainian energy system, you said a lot, but of course people think like that, well, surely not everything is closed, not everything is secured, and something else should be done, this work continues on the creation of

protective structures and so on. the time that remains before the onset of severe cold is enough to, well, do the maximum of what is possible today for shelter, well, we are now talking about ukrainergo, well, if we talk about ukrainergo, then i can responsibly say, what kind of main network , by which power is transported from large power plants to oblenergo, is possible especially do not worry, the first line of shelters, which are the most critical, which allow stable. this first stage is actually already being finalized there, and the absolute majority of those shelters that were supposed to be built, they have already been built then. the equipment is being placed, it is now being connected to the network, there is a planning process that will be completed there during the month of october this year, so

i would not worry so much about the ability of the energy system to transport power, and the biggest attack, which i think was on august 26, if i'm not mistaken, she is just right shows that even such an attack can cause some catastrophic consequences for the power system. can't, when we talk about shelters, we also need to understand that there are about 100 large objects in the power system and about 30,000 small ones, 100 large ones are a couple of dozen large power plants and about 80 substations of ukrenergo, all these large objects have an area of ​​tens of hectares, some power plants have an area of ​​hundreds of hectares, and it is clear that you cannot build some kind of confinement, like in chernobyl on... with an area of, i don't know, 10 or 100 football fields, it is physically impossible and impractical, therefore only the critical elements of each object are protected, well, for

the okrenergo substation, as well as for power plants, by the way, one of the critical elements is the autotransformers that convert the voltage from a higher class to a lower one in order to be able to further transport this electricity to citizens, to industrial enterprises, to hospitals, to schools, kindergartens, and so on, respectively, when there is damage either by a missile or by a drone of a kamika from some facility, some temporary outages are possible while repair crews fix non-critical equipment that can be replaced quickly, but the most important thing is to secure the most complex, most expensive equipment that takes a very long time to replace, it can take weeks, even months, and this is exactly the focus... if we talk about what still needs to be done before winter, of course, now it is necessary to focus on the protection,

engineering protection of our power plants in such an urgent, urgent manner , because if the ukrenergo network historically has a large margin of strength and even today, when winter has not yet come, it is nevertheless able to transport power, well, including. through transformers, which is twice our highest peak consumption in the country, then with generation with electricity production, the situation is exactly the opposite, you know the country has lost more than 9 gw of generation, that's more than half or half of all available generation as of last winter, and not all this power will be restored by winter, accordingly we will have fewer power plants in operation. there are fewer power units in operation than there were last winter, and those power plants that have survived now, and those power plants that are now being restored and will be restored before winter, so they must

be protected, they must be secured, because they have practically the same substations near them, which connect the power unit to the grid, these substations also need to be protected, and of course, first of all, we need to take care of active protection, that is, work with... partners to strengthen our air defense forces, because air defense, it gives there 85-90, probably percent protection against enemy missile and drone attacks. well, by the way, now the italians have a second sump system to transfer to ukraine, i think that their initiative is supported by other partners, there germany also promises to give more for the front, but i think that also for energy protection, well, you say that we now have half as much as last winter. i remember last winter, too, there were candles and points of invincibility, that even in such more or less cities, which are far from

the front, we had to sit for more than a day without light, that is, it should be clear to people now that if we talk about this gigawatt promised by the president, again it is not the responsibility of the president, it is a gigawatt to provide, he said, well, we will see how it will be implemented, but in any case in this case, we must understand that when the load increases, it will increase, because the heaters. and there people will use more electricity, then in any case, even if everything is fine with the defense, repel enemy attacks, the damage will be minimal, all the same, planned shutdowns will return with the onset of cold weather, because as i understand it, the volume that exists is banal, it will have to be eco-friendly, well, distributed evenly, which means that someone will have to save, despite the fact that there are critical infrastructure facilities , as far as i understand, which must be provided permanently, er... you are right, critical infrastructure facilities are heat supply, water supply, drainage, they, well, some other facilities, they must be provided permanently, they are not

included in these queues. outages, really at in cold weather, with the onset of cold weather, consumption will increase quite sharply, at the same time, it must be said that compared to today, the number of generations will also increase, because some nuclear power units will be repaired, the repair campaign at the nuclear power plant will end, some power units of thermal power plants will be restored, that is, it is impossible to say , that we will enter the winter with today's generation composition, no, it will be bigger. but the growth of consumption in relation to today, it will exceed the growth of the generation that we will have calculated for the winter, and therefore, in the cold periods of winter, when the temperature reaches -5 -7 -10° on average per day, er, a shortage of electricity is very likely, let's say, and it is not covered by

the available. generation resource, which is planned for the winter, as well as additional volumes of imports from europe, which ukrenergo provided after uniting the energy system of ukraine and europe in the 22nd year, but this import, first of all, is unfortunately not used in to the fullest extent, it is used by about 30-40%. well, because quite often in europe the price is still higher, than in ukraine, that is, people should understand that we do not just give this electricity to us... and moreover, it is bought there by mainly private companies and there by some state companies on a commercial basis, that is, after buying electricity in europe, they must sell it at least without loss in ukraine, despite the fact that when the price in ukraine is lower than the european price, of course it is impossible, and to whom do they sell to consumers or business users the electricity spot exchange, which is called the day-ahead market, it is the market today for tomorrow, there are different options .

but mainly electricity is imported for large industrial consumers, who in this way protect themselves from blackouts, because there is such a decree of the cabinet of ministers that allows you to avoid blackouts if you import a certain percentage of your consumption, and accordingly, its industrial enterprises for technological in the process of which blackouts are very, well, let's say, harmful, they are very sensitive to these blackouts, in this way, paying a little more for electricity, the less they protect their production from this negative phenomenon, we will now continue to talk about things about energy, technology, preparing for winter and other important issues, but let me ask a question that was accelerated in such a way, you know, like in this, like in a vacuum tube , very quickly, and that's how it went about the bonus you allegedly received when

you resigned. head of pratnyk ukrenergo, and it was about uah 40 million. here it is interesting where this amount came from, in principle, who was the first to voice it, because it must be a person who has access to certain financial statements, well, that is, i think that not everyone knows how much, say, an espresso employee could receive a bonus if he received it there, well, you have to have it, have some insiders, and who was the first to announce this figure, why 40 million and whether there was any kind of bonus at all, well, first of all it must be said that... voiced was the first to voice this amount, as far as i know, the telegram channel is working, such an anonymous telegram channel, which is not the first time to voice lies, this amount has nothing to do with reality, they published, by the way, an interesting fact , they published this part of the photo from the minutes of the meeting of the supervisory board, where upon my dismissal.

it was also written the need for a full settlement with me as an employee, including the payment of those previously unpaid payments for previous years starting from the 21st, because according to my contract, part of the payments to me there of my salary, bonus, she the essence will be kept until the end of my contract or for several years, and from where? the sum of 40 million, i simply do not know, it is made up, just like the made-up story about the poor protection of ukrenergo substations, which are believed to be the only ones in in principle, the facilities are protected in this country, and i can say that i actually received a part of the bonuses there for previous years that were not paid when i was fired, this is a completely normal practice, when an employee is fired, he

receives all the payments due to him. and the amount of these payments is