oleksandr kharchenko, director of the energy research center, joins: to of our broadcast, oleksandr, good evening , my greetings, good evening, what are we doing now, you as an independent expert can say about the readiness of energy for winter, because we heard that it is more vulnerable than that year, someone new york times writes that, in general, the situation is not very optimistic, could ukraine have prepared the energy sector better for this winter, or all available opportunities for use? you know my answer. to this question sounds as follows: i sincerely believe that the energy workers of ukraine have done what they could by 120%, from the point of view to prepare the system, but what has been done is 60%, or maybe less , of what we would like to see done, and unfortunately, this is the reality in which we have to live when half of the generating capacities are destroyed, when 70% of shunting coal-fired power plants were destroyed. destroyed, captured, damaged, when it was necessary to restore 45% of high-voltage networks, just from the ashes , so you know, when such a quest

important, about what concerns all of us together with you, director of the energy research center oleksandr kharchenko with us on skype. i congratulate you, mr. oleksandr, and the first question, already today ukrenergo announced that the deficit is growing , accordingly, we see sub-zero temperatures, mostly already, and what should we prepare for, will there be blackouts soon, good evening, well, i would i didn't scare you with the word blackout, because what is happening and the deficit have nothing to do with the blackout, let's start with that. and indeed there are certain inconveniences and discomforts, and they are possible due to two reasons, and the first reason is this is that a very powerful second cyclone is approaching, unfortunately, just as we had a very serious storm in the southern regions, it is now approaching from the western side, and it is quite possible that due to the weather there will be some serious inconvenience, including related to the fact that the lines are simply physically broken and must be restored. and because of this, people can remain without electricity, and sinc