Gas is now in the spotlight. How long will it take to repair the infrastructure damaged by Russians? (video)

On the night of Tuesday, February 11, Russians launched a missile strike on the production facilities of the Naftogaz group in the Poltava region. Repairs on the damaged equipment may take up to a year or even longer.

This was reported by the director of the Energy Research Center, Alexander Kharchenko, during a broadcast on "Kyiv24." According to him, this was the third strike by the Russian Federation on Ukraine's gas extraction facilities in the past three weeks. All of them caused certain damages.

"The Muscovites have focused on limiting the Ukrainian system's ability to extract gas. There are specific elements within the system that contain equipment for pressure enhancement and are absolutely necessary… they concentrated on attacking such facilities, and unfortunately, several have been damaged,” he explained.

Kharchenko added that it is now necessary to order compressor stations and machines, which will take a long time to arrive.

"In unofficial estimates, we have lost access to about 25 percent of the gas we were extracting, and the recovery process will take from a month at best to over a year,” the expert predicts.

As reported by "Telegraph," the director of energy programs at the "Razumkov Center," Vladimir Omelchenko, warned that the Russian attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure could lead to widespread power outages across the country. He stated that any subsequent strike could potentially result in emergency blackouts on a national scale.