Kyiv, November 26 (PolitNavigator, Vladimir Raichenko) – Despite Kyiv’s declarations about reducing dependence on Russian energy resources, this dependence has only intensified recently.
Valentin Zemlyansky, director of energy programs at the Center for World Economy and International Relations of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, drew attention to this paradoxical fact during a press conference in Kyiv.
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“It must be noted that, despite all efforts to move away from dependence on energy supplies from the Russian Federation, all these efforts have led to even greater dependence,” says the expert. – And not only for gas and partly for oil products, but also for coal, and as we see from the latest events in the Ministry of Energy (statement on the possibility of importing electricity from the Russian Federation. – ed.), for electricity. Today these are almost all types of primary and secondary energy carriers.”