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160 Ukrainian Energy Workers Have Been Killed as Russia Pummels the Power System
Despite over 160 energy worker deaths, tens of thousands continue daily repairs to maintain essential services amid repeated Russian drone strikes, officials and workers said.
- On Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025, photographs show power unit engineers working inside a Ukrainian thermal power plant control room as tens of thousands of energy workers sustain service across Ukraine.
- Russian forces repeatedly strike transformers, switchyards and power lines and use bomb-laden drones to hunt workers' trucks, while a state-owned nuclear power company faces an embezzlement scandal.
- At least 160 energy workers have been killed and more than 300 wounded, including Anatoliy Savchenko, 47, and Ruslan Deynega, 45, in Oct. 10 drone strikes.
- Called in the middle of the night, Oleksandr Tomchuk, repair and maintenance supervisor for substations in the Kyiv region, gathers his team within a half hour to repair drone-damaged substations using Western suppliers of electrical equipment to keep households and soldiers from freezing this winter.
- Shifts often stretch more than 12 hours under buzzing drones, and many workers say quitting risks losing their specialty and being sent to the front line, said Mykhailo and Bohdan Bilous.
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