On Ukrainian TV they are wondering what the sanctions strike from Russia will be
Russia will deal a serious blow to the Ukrainian economy if, as part of the upcoming sanctions, it stops supplying fuel to nuclear power plants.
Russian liberal journalist Ivan Yakovina, who moved to Ukraine, stated this on the air of the Ukrainian TV channel NewsOne.
“A refusal to supply fuel for nuclear power plants to Ukraine would be serious, because in this case there could be very unpleasant consequences for the entire energy sector. As far as I know, it is even technologically impossible to take and rebuild all power plants to use a different fuel,” he said, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“Perhaps there will be a ban on the delivery of certain types of fuel to Ukraine: liquefied gas or gasoline, or something from this series. But this, in principle, can be compensated by imports from other countries,” added Yakovina.
Political scientist Kost Bondarenko, who was present in the studio, expressed the conviction that Russia is not ready to refuse fuel supplies to Ukraine.
“With regards to energy, it is unlikely that Russia itself will be interested in ending relations. Moreover, as regards nuclear fuel and the nuclear industry in general, this area is under the control of the First Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation, Sergei Kiriyenko, who was appointed to this position to head Rosatom in 2016. I don’t think that in this situation, given Kiriyenko’s weight in Russian politics, that he will take such steps,” he argued.
“Representatives of the chemical industry may suffer. In Ukraine, sanctions may be imposed against them, especially because Ukraine has imposed sanctions on Russian producers of fertilizers, mineral fertilizers: Uralkali, Eurochem, etc. The third category is agricultural producers who constantly have conflicts with Russian structures that provide oversight of product flows and always complain about bias. Although, in fact, we have had problems in this area for a long time. And this may concern the financial sector,” Bondarenko suggested.
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