Critical energy generation equipment donated by Ukraine's partners has been left idle and unconnected to the grid for years, as Russian attacks cripple the country's energy system during its coldest winter in decades. Russia has plunged Ukraine into a catastrophic energy crisis, damaging around 8.5 gigawatts of generation capacity since October 2025 through relentless attacks on power plants, leaving citizens freezing in unheated and dark homes. To survive, Ukraine says it needs $1 billion wor
  • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    21 hours ago

    Non-technical, non-expert people often hugely underestimate how incredibly complex large systems are. You can’t just wheel up some generators to a bombed-out substation and plug in the local grid.

    The same applies to systems of organisation. Cities don’t know how to run this, local governments don’t know shit about power systems, so someone will have to tell them what to do. But they have to find experts to advise them, and there aren’t an infinite number of those available.

    So you’ve got a situation that is very complex, being run by an organisation out of its depth. It’s going to get fucked up no matter how well intentioned everyone is. And since they’re human, they’re not well intentioned.

  • rockerface🇺🇦@lemmy.cafeEnglish
    15·
    2 days ago

    We do have some shitheads in the government and in the energy sector management, yeah. It’s not like the corruption and incompetence magically went away in 2022. This is the part that needs to change yesterday.

    • RidderSport@feddit.org
      11·
      1 day ago

      And that is always something I point at when some shithead goes: “Ukraine is as corrupt as Russia”, I don’t know if the depth is comparable, but Russia is not changing. Ukraine however is actively rooting out corruption, it will take another few years yes, but they’ll get there. And I for one can’t wait for the day Schengen expands eastwards and we can celebrate freedom as fellow Europeans.