Strategic energy facilities should return under Ukrainian control - Zelenskyy

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that some strategic energy facilities should be returned under state control. Zelenskyy said this in an interview with Nataliya Moseychuk that aired on 1+1.

Answering the journalist's question about whether Ukraine will return the enterprises that were once inherited by oligarchs, Zelensky said that where the law allows it, it should be returned.

At the same time, where it is impossible, it is a matter of time," he said.

Zelensky explained that Ukraine should pass the next winter to avoid an energy crisis that would weaken the country, including on the front. He also noted that damaging the Ukrainian energy sector is a priority for the Russian Federation.

If people are in the trenches, and their children, wives, they don't know what to do when there is no light, no water, no life, in fact... He should think and not divide his brain over everything. Family is very important, but you have to concentrate. And if it's possible - concentrate on winning, on the battlefield. And that's very important. And this defocus, if it is due to this or that businessman, I must destroy it. Not the businessman, but the possibility of this defocus and the splitting of the state. That's all I have to do. Therefore, some energy facilities should return under the control of the state, so that there would be no risks of one kind or another," Zelensky said.