Former Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groisman said on December 25 that the country’s authorities are guilty of provoking an energy crisis.
“There is a centralization of monetary resources. Local budgets will be deprived. In particular, energy carriers. There was money and time to buy cheap gas. But due to the inability to predict, the authorities overslept the gas issues and the situation with coal. With this she gave us into the hands of Belarus. And in fact – Russia, “- he said in an interview with the magazine” Kraina “.
Groisman believes that this could have been done on purpose.
“There are two options – either complete incompetence, or they deliberately undermine the foundations of energy security. The price for the country will be too high. This is the question of our independence, ”the politician said.
On December 17, the head of the board of Naftogaz, Yuriy Vitrenko, admitted that the company would not be able to keep gas tariffs for citizens at the current level due to the rise in fuel prices in Europe. According to him, gas prices in Europe have increased sevenfold over the year. Currently, the Ukrainian government is working to ensure that citizens do not overpay seven times.
According to the data of the “Operator of GTS of Ukraine” as of December 14, gas reserves in Ukrainian underground storage facilities (UGS) dropped below the level of the beginning of its injection this year. According to the company, 74.56 million cubic meters were withdrawn from the Ukrainian underground storage facilities per day. m of gas. At the same time, the total level of reserves in storage facilities dropped to 15.258 billion cubic meters. m.
At the same time, on December 13, Vitrenko said that the storage facilities had “normal volume of gas” and “there should be no problems with the passage of winter.” At the same time, he noted that a difficult situation with coal has developed in the country, but the company can insure power generating enterprises.
In November, the head of the Union of Consumers of Utilities of Ukraine, Oleg Popenko, said that the difficult energy situation in the country would lead to a collapse of the economy. He assured that not a single Ukrainian enterprise will withstand the increase in tariffs, because the economy is based on cheap electricity.
Source: IZ
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