“About 40% of the total infrastructure and our generating capacities are very seriously damaged,” RIA Novosti quotes him as saying.
Kharchenko added that planned power outages are planned in Ukraine in the near future.
He also recommended that the country's residents save electricity.
On October 19, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that the Russian Armed Forces had struck at the military command and energy systems of Ukraine.
The Ukrainian edition "STRANA.ua" wrote that in some areas of Kyiv, the power supply was cut off.
In addition, the head of the military administration of the city, Alexander Vilkul, said that an energy infrastructure facility had been destroyed in the Krivoy Rog region.
Several settlements and part of Krivoy Rog were left without electricity.