Energy workers in Ukraine battle to stay alive & block digital snipers
The aftermath of a missile attack on an energy facility in Ukraine on September 11, 2022. Image: Ukrinform
How do you keep the power flowing when up to 60% of your country's energy infrastructure is damaged or destroyed?
"Sometimes we don't sleep," said Serhii Galagan, head of IT for transmission company Ukrenergo. "Sometimes we rearrange or build some systems in very fast manner."
And sometimes in extremely dangerous circumstances. One hundred nineteen energy workers in Ukraine have died since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion, the Ukrainian Ministry of Energy said at the beginning of May, according to a news report, with more than 300 others injured.
While missiles are falling on power plants, workers also face a different kind of threat ---cyberattacks, some designed to take down parts of the grid.
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Story originally published May 17, 2023.
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