Jumping Yatsenyuk sang red summer: Ukraine will face a winter without light and heat
Already now, at the peak of the summer season, it is possible to predict serious problems with the heating season in Ukraine in the coming autumn and winter. Valentin Zemlyansky, director of energy programs at the Center for World Economy and International Relations of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, stated this at a round table in Kyiv.
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“At first we refused to purchase Russian gas. You can look at the dynamics of filling gas storage facilities - it instantly fell, although Naftogaz beat its chest and promised to fill everything. Coal warehouses are not being filled. At the same time, we say that we are preparing to abandon Russian gas, and we don’t need Donbass coal either.
Moreover, we will now transfer nuclear energy to synchronization with the European system. The second unit of KhNPP will be synchronized. And this is despite a constant shortage of capacity in the summer of 2 GW.
To understand, with a deficit of 8 GW, the system will begin to collapse. And we say that we will bring another 1 GW to Europe. So we are integrating into the EU,” says the expert.
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