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More missile defence systems are needed to protect Ukraine’s power plants from Russian attacks in the coming winter, an energy boss has said.
Maxim Timchenho, CEO of DTEK, Ukraine’s largest private energy supplier, said president Volodymyr Zelensky and the government had been doing everything it could to protect energy infrastructure.
But the experience of the past 12 months has prompted Ukraine to seek more air defence systems to protect its critical infrastructure.
"We need more Patriots, more IRIS systems. We cannot protect ourselves against ballistic missiles if we don’t have air defence systems," Mr Timchenko said.
"I know that our president and our government have been doing everything that they can to bring the message that we need this equipment to protect our energy system."
Earlier, Ukraine’s military said its troops had pushed Russian soldiers out of positions on the eastern bank of the River Dnipro in the occupied Kherson region and established several bridgeheads.
“Units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces managed to knock out the Russians from their positions on the left bank of the Dnipro and consolidate there,” General Staff spokesperson Andriy Kovalyov said.
