Renewables4Ukraine – How renewables can serve the climate, the peace and the people | With Ruslana Lyzhichko

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?