MOSCOW, March 27. /TASS/. Ukraine may experience an electricity shortage this summer due to the damage done to a large number of power generation facilities, Sergey Kovalenko, CEO of Yasno (a subsidiary of the country’s largest energy holding DTEK), told a telethon audience.

"Several generation facilities, a large number of thermal power plants and a hydro power plant as well as Ukrenergo networks, transformer substations, etc. have been damaged," the Zerkalo Nedeli news outlet quoted the power utility executive as saying.

According to Kovalenko, as major damage was done to power generation facilities, repair work may take months or longer, and thus "a power deficit may occur in the country as early as in the summer."

On Tuesday, Kovalenko said that DTEK had lost half of its generation capacity. Ukraine increased electricity imports for several days in a row to set this year’s record of over 18,000 MW per hour on Tuesday.