Mitrakhovich: Ukraine will have to bow to Minsk or Moscow, begging for electricity
Ukraine will have to go and ask Russia and Belarus for electricity supplies so as not to stop the industry.
National Energy Security Fund expert Stanislav Mitrakhovich stated this on the Roy TV Internet channel, PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to the expert, even so, from Belarus, for example, it is technologically impossible to supply a large volume of electricity to Ukraine.
“If we are going to put pressure on Ukraine, then we need to agree that Lukashenko does not re-export coal and does not supply electricity, although he objectively needs to load the nuclear plant, which, after all, was built with a Russian loan, this loan needs to be repaid, these things are here interconnected. But here, too, there is an infrastructural limitation, for example, a cross-section that makes it possible to supply electricity from Belarus to Ukraine. That's 900 megawatt hours. This is not much at all, so it is possible that even if Belarusian supplies to Ukraine are resumed in large volumes, it may still not be enough for Ukraine,” the expert said.
“If there are no electricity supplies from Russia, this will further complicate the situation. Just a couple of weeks ago, everyone was sure that Ukraine would first pompously allow imports again, you know, like “I don’t want to take your product, but so be it - I’ll lift the ban on buying your product.” Ukraine is lifting the ban on buying electricity from Russia on November 1, and it was supposed that everything should start in early November. But for some reason it didn’t happen,” the analyst noted.
“The Russian company Inter-RAO, which has the right to export electricity, did not hold the corresponding event, an auction. Well, perhaps this is also a certain pressure tool. And here Ukraine finds itself in a situation: what should it do? What should she do? She will either have to bow to Lukashenko or Moscow, or she will have to turn off some industrial consumers,” Mitrakhovich said.
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