EU at UN Security Council: Ukraine has lost up to 80% of its pre-war thermal electricity production capacity

On 10 September, the Head of the EU Delegation to the United Nations, Ambassador Stavros Lambrinidis, speaking in New York at the UN Security Council on the Maintenance of International Peace and Security, repeated the EU’s call on Russia immediately to halt its illegal war of aggression, including its unrelenting air strikes against Ukraine’s civilians and civilian and critical infrastructure. 

On 26 August, Russia launched an unprecedented number of 236 missiles and drones. On 3 September, at least 55 people were killed and 328 injured in Poltava alone.

“It has hit residential buildings, hospitals, schools, power plants and playgrounds. This is unacceptable under any circumstances. Ukraine has lost up to 80% of its pre-war thermal electricity production capacity. It is clear Russia is attempting to pile the pressure on the Ukrainian people ahead of a cold winter,” Lambrinidis said.

He said the EU is “very concerned” by the recent reports indicating that Iran has supplied Russia with ballistic missiles and called upon all countries, including the DPRK and Belarus, to refrain from any actions that may amount to complicity in Russia’s aggression against Ukraine.

Lambrinidis also reminded of the fact that Russia has cut off an estimated 1.5 million Ukrainians from humanitarian aid and called on Moscow to respect its obligations under international humanitarian law and human rights law in the territories it temporarily occupies. “Because while it wages a war of aggression, it shows no concern for the welfare of civilians in the areas it temporarily occupies,” Lambrinidis told the UN Security Council.

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