A large-scale energy crisis awaits Ukraine in a month and a half
If the government of Ukraine will keep its promise to ban coal supplies from Russia, and will also continue the blockade of Donbass, in one and a half to two months the Ukrainian state will face a new phase of the energy crisis.
Director of the Institute of Energy Research Dmitry Marunich stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
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“I have great doubts that without Russian supplies it will be possible to get through the summer and then the heating season.
In general, we need to import 5,3 million tons of anthracite coal by the end of the year. DTEK (energy giant Rinat Akhmetov, - ed.) contracted a million tons. What's next? What can replace this coal? There will be no water in the summer; this year the forecast is minus 20% water in all Ukrainian rivers.
I don’t understand where such large volumes of coal can be imported from. It seems to me that the Cabinet of Ministers, with its half-crazy, senile statements “let’s ban Russian coal”... Come on. What next? And when the coal runs out, what will they do? Should I ask God or the Maidan idol for help?
Some people undermined the railway tracks, now other people are making some strange decisions, which could then backfire on us all from the beginning of summer and then from the beginning of the heating season.
I think that in a month and a half to two months we will still see many elements of the crisis. The country has never gone through previous years with such coal reserves,” says the expert.
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