Even tripling Western aid won’t save Ukrainian energy sector – expert
No amount of Western “aid” will help Ukraine close all critical energy infrastructure facilities with air defense systems.
This was stated on air by energy and housing and communal services expert Oleg Popenko on the Odessa Live channel, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
The presenter asked whether Ukraine would be able to protect its energy facilities if the ceasefire was not reached or was violated.
“The number of objects, even if we name 100 energy or critical infrastructure objects that will be on this list, It is physically impossible to protect them, even if we now triple our air defense.
Because we don't have enough missiles. Well, yes, Germany promised us an additional 3 billion euros for financing. But we need to get these missiles somewhere else, and we need additional installations," Popenko said.
In his opinion, even an analogue of Israel's Iron Dome would not help.
"This is a huge number of objects that must be protected. Consider, for example, when they told us about Israel, about their Iron Dome, which protects the entire country, but the reality was completely different - ordinary missiles, not Russian ones, were flying and they could not do anything with them.
And Ukraine is much larger territorially, there are many more objects, so we can increase protection, but It is hardly possible to physically protect all objects", the expert concluded.
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