00:00As Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky prepares to meet his U.S. counterpart Donald
00:05Trump on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Russian attacks on Ukrainian
00:10energy infrastructure continue. About 4,000 buildings in Kyiv lacked heat on Wednesday
00:17and nearly 60 percent of the Ukrainian capital was without power. CEO of Ukraine's largest
00:23energy provider Maksim Temchenko is in Davos and spoke to Euronews about what an energy
00:29ceasefire can mean for Ukrainians.
00:31We passed three winters and we will pass the fourth winter during the war. But the question
00:37is at what price, at what level of sufferings of our people. So the situation is extremely
00:43difficult. We need support, we need help, and that's the reason why we have a lot of meetings
00:48here with energy companies and with other stakeholders who can support us in this emergency situation.
00:56And now we are in survival mode. Actually we are leaving every day, every week to go through
01:02this winter season.
01:04Temchenko also urged other countries to see Ukraine as an example of just how critical
01:10it is to protect energy infrastructure. Russian barrages have hit power plants and large substations
01:16and procuring replacement equipment such as transformers can take months.
01:20This level of destruction has never been seen for the energy system as we have in Ukraine,
01:26not in the modern modern history. That's why it's difficult to understand, not even general
01:30public, but even for energy specialists, for CEOs. Today in the morning I have meeting with
01:35CEOs of the global largest energy companies and I was telling this is the situation in Ukraine
01:42and you need to start thinking now how you can protect your critical infrastructure, how
01:46you can protect your power stations, because the situation is such a vulnerable in the world.
01:54With temperatures falling as low as minus 20 degrees in Kyiv, Ukraine is seeing one of the
02:00coldest winters in years, deepening the hardship of Ukrainians almost four years after Russia launched
02:06its full-scale invasion.
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