Oleksandr Kharchenko, Director of the Center for Energy Research, spoke about this on the Espreso TV channel."The Russians want to launch the Zaporizhzhia NPP as much as possible. They need it. They are in a bad situation in the Southern energy district. Everything is bad, there is not enough generation, the grids are in poor condition. Their energy sector has been in decline for many years. In 2004, they adopted the second version of the 'grand program for the restoration of the great Russian energy sector,' which they completely failed. Because without Ukraine and without Europe since 2014, they have no access, they don't have the equipment, and they don't know how to make it. And there is no chance they will learn. Rosatom doesn't even play with this idea; it simply understands that it's a 'no,'" explained Kharchenko.The expert added that in the Russian Far East, power outages occur constantly. He compared the situation to the outages that occurred in Ukraine in 1998-2000."And as a result, they have completely failed at everything. They have outages even without our strikes. With our strikes, it's even more intense, but even without our strikes. I'm not even talking about the Far East, where outages are happening now like they did in our 1998-2000s," he concluded.