Lithuania will provide Ukraine with equipment from the currently defunct thermal power plant

Fire at the Kharkiv CHP in 2022. Photo: Konstantin and Vlada Liberov

Lithuania will provide Ukraine with equipment from the currently defunct Vilnius CHP, as well as part of the equipment from the Ignalina NPP and warehouses of energy companies.

This was stated by the Minister of Energy of Lithuania Dainius Kravis, reports LRT.

According to him, a large transformer will also be sent to Ukraine.

Dainius Kravis added that Vilnius CHP-3 has not been operating since 2016, but this does not mean that the station is idle. Preventive maintenance is provided and stations undergo routine testing. Lithuania intends to transfer them to Ukraine.

«We will give them everything they need. In Kharkiv, 80% of all networks — both thermal and electric — were destroyed. If we do not help, the Ukrainians will not be able to restore the network and the heating sector before winter, which will be very, very difficult,» said Dainius Kravis.

We will remind that on the night of April 11, the Russian army attacked the energy infrastructure in the Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Lviv, and Kyiv regions.