Ukraine needs energy "Ramstein": Poroshenko calls on allies to urgently provide equipment and spare parts for energy networks

On the air of the Croatian TV channel N1, he noted that Putin is trying to force Ukraine to surrender due to the destruction of critical infrastructure facilities. However, Ukrainians demonstrate extraordinary resilience in this situation, Poroshenko emphasizes. 

“Unfortunately, more than 35% of Ukraine's energy infrastructure has been destroyed. No country can survive in Europe under such conditions. But we, Ukrainians, are ready for this, because freedom, democracy and the return to the European family of nations are much more important for us than the lack of energy, water, and electricity. And it's better to be in the darkness than to be a slave,” Poroshenko pointed out.

“This is just one more proof that Ukraine is currently the most Euro-optimistic country on the continent. We count on the support of the Europeans, the United States, and NATO member countries,” Ukraine’s fifth president noted.

“Assistance with anti-missile and anti-aircraft defense should be the most urgent, as this can help close the sky. And the second point is critical objects, I mean generators and transformers for energy infrastructure,” Poroshenko explained. 

“Because Ukrainians who work in the energy sector with a certain risk to their own lives, knowing that rockets are coming to the power plant, stay there and try to restore power supply to Kyiv, to the whole of Ukraine in an extremely short time. But we need spare parts that will help us fight against Putin's energy blackmail,” Petro Poroshenko emphasized.

“Thank you for Ramstein and the supply of weapons, but today we also need an energy Ramstein. And I, as the fifth president of Ukraine, initiated and called on all member states to organize this and demonstrate this type of solidarity with Ukraine,” Poroshenko said.

“Our partners must condemn these attacks. We ask that an extraordinary meeting of the UN Security Council be convened. And within a short period of time, Putin must appear behind bars in The Hague at the International Court of Justice,” Petro Poroshenko is convinced.