Russian strikes kill 317 civilian energy workers over four years of war
At least 317 civilian employees of energy companies have been killed as a result of Russian military strikes during the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Energy Ministry reported.
The ministry announced the casualties on the Day of Remembrance for Fallen Energy Workers on 11 September.
“Exactly four years ago, the war claimed the lives of our colleagues for the first time – they were killed at their workplaces during a massive missile strike on energy facilities,” Ukrenergo stated.
Many energy workers have also joined the military, and at least 1,813 have been killed during their service.
“The worst-case scenario, and we’ll do everything to avoid that, is that at some point access to energy and electricity would be severely damaged, which means that access to heating would be severely damaged and that, for example, water systems and sewage systems would stop functioning. With the temperatures that you would get here, that would lead to circumstances which would be really close to a humanitarian catastrophe,” BBC World Service cites him.
To provide background, in more than four years of the full-scale war, Russian forces have killed more than 16,800 and injured over 51,200 civilians alone in Ukraine.
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