KYIV, Ukraine, May 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- World
heavyweight boxing champion Oleksandr Usyk is
supporting efforts to rebuild his country's energy system
after brutal Russian attacks, which continued on Wednesday.
Ahead of the boxer's May 18 fight
with Tyson Fury to decide the
Undisputed Heavyweight Champion of the World, Usyk is
partnering Ukrainian energy company DTEK to draw
global attention to the plight of Ukraine's civilian power system.
Since launching its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Russia has damaged or destroyed 50% of the
country's energy system. Just this spring, the enemy has damaged or
destroyed 80% of Ukraine's thermal
power capacity, 30% of hydro-electrical facilities and dozens of
critical substations across the country. According to the
Ministry of Energy of Ukraine, the
damage to the power system, excluding the latest attacks, had
already amounted to $11.5
billion.
Usyk will be supported in Riyadh's Kingdom Stadium by around 30 war
veterans who have returned to work at DTEK after frontline
action in some of the war's most intense battles.
The #FightForLight partnership between Usyk and DTEK aims
to highlight the critical state of Ukraine's energy sector to global allies and
to appeal for urgent technical assistance (such as replacement
generators, transformers and turbines) to energy companies across
the sector, before the onset of winter in six months' time.
DTEK CEO Maxim Timchenko
said: "DTEK is doing everything possible to draw the attention
of the world community to the energy infrastructure destroyed by
the enemy and the need to restore it and protect it from new
criminal attacks by Russia. We
appreciate that Oleksandr Usyk and
his team share these aspirations and will help the voice of
Ukrainian energy workers be heard. We have a common goal and a
common task – to protect our people and Ukrainian civilian
infrastructure, so that every Ukrainian family has light and
heat."
Critically, restoring the energy sector also depends on rapid
deliveries of air defence systems and ammunition from Ukraine's allies.
#FightForLight (https://dtek.com/en/fight-for-light/)
NOTE TO EDITORS: A Russian
missile attack on three DTEK power stations early on Wednesday
morning caused further destruction
to energy infrastructure already under urgent repair after four
previous strikes in March and April
(https://dtek.com/en/media-center/news/).
DTEK Group
DTEK is the leader and the biggest private investor in
Ukraine's energy sector. DTEK
Group employs 55,000 people. Our companies are involved in coal and
natural gas extraction; electricity generation from wind, solar,
and thermal power plants; energy resources trading in local and
international markets; distributing and supplying electricity to
consumers; providing energy efficiency services to customers; and
developing high-speed charging station networks.
Our Strategy 2030 commits DTEK Group to transforming into a more
efficient, eco-friendly and technologically advanced business,
guided by ESG principles. Our goal is to achieve carbon neutrality
by 2040. During the war, DTEK Group has restored power-supply
to 11 million customers in the regions affected by Russian
hostilities.
The company is fully owned by SCM Limited. The final beneficiary
is Rinat Akhmetov.
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