Renewables4Ukraine – How renewables can serve the climate, the peace and the people | With Ruslana Lyzhichko
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One year has passed since Putin’s Russia has attacked Ukraine and occupied major parts of the Ukrainian territory, killing meanwhile tens of thousands of soldiers as well as civilians. An important part of the background is in the one-sided dependency on Russian fossil and nuclear resources which provided the financial resources for Russia’s military and kept energy customers in dependence.
In particular Ukraine has suffered tremendously from this situation and after one year of permanent bombs and shelling, large part of the country’s infrastructure has been destroyed by targeted Russian attacks. The world has been in particular alarmed by military activities around various nuclear power stations. Many millions of Ukrainians had to flee from their homes, to safer places inside and outside the country.
We speak with Ruslana Lyzhichko, first Ukrainian ESC winner, democratic activist and ambassador for 100% renewable energy about her country one year after the war started. Already before the war, she had strongly promoted a renewable energy future for Ukraine, and on 24 February 2022 she called the world community to provide renewable energy equipment to the country. As consequence, the initiative #Renewables4Ukraine has collected more than 150 thousand Euros and has sent more than 1000 smaller and medium sized solar sets to Ukraine, to emergency services as well as to hospitals.
What are the prospects of a renewable energy future for Ukraine today, a country blessed with all types of renewables, and can Ukraine one day, after the war, even become an example for other countries to follow?
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