Blinken to announce help for Ukraine's power transmission on Tuesday - U.S. official - Reuters

BUCHAREST, Nov 28 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken connected Tuesday volition denote caller assistance to assistance reconstruct Ukraine’s powerfulness transmission quality successful the look of Russian attacks targeting the country’s vigor grid, a elder State Department authoritative said.

Blinken arrived successful Romania connected Monday evening up of a meetings with NATO allies and overseas ministers from the Group of Seven precocious economies.

Ukraine's overseas curate told immoderate NATO diplomats visiting Kyiv earlier successful the time that transformers were the biggest constituent of the country's powerfulness infrastructure that needed to beryllium restored. [nL8N32O346}

The U.S. official, who briefed reporters connected information of anonymity, said Washington had been moving with U.S. utilities and hardware providers and with European nations to find instrumentality that tin assistance reconstruct high-voltage transmission stations damaged by Russian rocket strikes.

Blinken would usage a Tuesday gathering of a caller vigor coordination radical that includes the G7 and different nations connected to "roll retired immoderate of what the United States has been capable to mobilize and our plans to get that instrumentality into Ukraine arsenic rapidly arsenic imaginable successful the adjacent fewer weeks," the authoritative said.

The authoritative did not specify what signifier the assistance would instrumentality oregon however overmuch it would beryllium worth.

Washington has besides been encouraging different countries to bash the aforesaid truthful Kyiv tin avert blackouts that permission millions of radical successful acheronian and without heating successful the mediate of sub-zero temperatures, the authoritative said.

Moscow was trying to contradict powerfulness to Ukraine's civilian colonisation by targeting sub-stations, the authoritative said, adding that those outgo millions of dollars but were susceptible to the Iranian-supplied drones utilized by Russia successful Ukraine.

“They’re retired successful the open, they’re not successful buildings, they’re precise hard to protect," the authoritative said.

Reporting by Humeyra Pamuk; Writing by Simon Lewis; Editing by Stephen Coates

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