How Ukraine is saving itself from the energy crisis — non-standard measures — NYT — Ukraine

The entire power plant, which once supplied heat to half of Vilnius, was dismantled for spare parts for Ukrainian facilities.

In order to overcome the consequences of massive Russian attacks on the energy infrastructure and to avoid a crisis of energy supply in the winter period, the Ukrainian authorities are resorting to unconventional measures.

The New York Times writes about it.

Search for spare parts

Russian attacks have depleted Ukrainian supplies of equipment for repairing and maintaining power plants.

Since Ukrainian energy facilities were mostly built during the Soviet Union, they depend on spare parts that were not made in the West. Therefore, the largest private energy company of Ukraine, DTEK, began searching for factories in the countries of the former “social camp” and the former Baltic republics of the USSR in order to find compatible spare parts.

Eventually…