BERLIN, Oct 26 – DTEK's thermal power plants saw UAH 17.6 billion in losses in January-October, including more than one third of which in the third quarter, the latest Russian shelling aggravated the situation even more and necessitates support for the company on a par with the entire industry, DTEK CEO Maksym Timchenko said.

"For eight months [of the war], our thermal power plants saw UAH 17.6 billion in losses, and this is when calculating the cost of coal, which is artificial, UAH 4,200 per ton. But we can no longer survive in such conditions. We cannot count that losses of UAH 17.6 billion are something we can somehow cope with," he told Interfax-Ukraine on the sidelines of the Ukrainian-German Economic Forum in Berlin on Tuesday.