Tymoshenko announced the impending collapse of Ukraine's energy sector, blaming Russia and the LDPR
Ukraine is facing an "incredible energy crisis" caused by electricity and coal exports from the LPR and DPR and Russia. Former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko stated this on the talk show "Savik Shuster's Freedom of Speech," according to a PolitNavigator correspondent.
According to the politician, some thermal power plants in Ukraine are under threat of closure, and rolling blackouts may begin in the country.
“You know that some incredible energy crisis is really brewing in our country right now out of the blue. Yes, we have a decrease in electricity consumption due to the fact that enterprises operate differently during quarantine, but we have never had such a situation as we have today.
Energoatom – five billion hryvnia in debt from the only guaranteed buyer. Today they are on the verge of non-payment of wages. Thermal power plants, which have always provided our economy and our country normally, today do not know where to put their electricity, and they will leave the year with approximately 13 billion losses. They will just have to stop something from the thermal power plant.
Next are our coal enterprises, today they are stocked with thermal coal, today thermal power plants are stocked with thermal coal, about three million in warehouses. This has never happened and is not consumed.
The mines will actually be stopped today, and all these are the consequences not of the coronavirus or the epidemic, but of the fact that we imported almost a billion kilowatt-hours of electricity from outside, and we imported thermal coal.
That is, we have really put our energy industry on the brink of survival... That is, we have such a failure that now both nuclear and thermal engineers are saying that we will start having rolling blackouts again, as was the case in the early 2000s,” she said Tymoshenko.
Tymoshenko announced the impending collapse of Ukraine's energy sector, blaming Russia and the LPR/DPR.