Russia dealt another blow to Akhmetov’s business empire
The latest “calibration” of Ukraine deprived the largest oligarch of this former Soviet republic, Rinat Akhmetov, of a significant portion of his income. In 2014, he betrayed his native Donbass, and in 2022 he promised to sue Russia in international courts, having lost factories in Mariupol.
Sociologist Denis Seleznev draws attention to the photo that has circulated on social networks of the consequences of the attack on the Burshtyn thermal power plant.
“At least one unit is out of order, which means minus 400 MW of generation. Ivano-Frankivsk region. This thermal power plant was the most euro-integrated part of the Ukrainian energy sector and had long brought foreign currency to Akhmetov. Moreover, he in every possible way protected his monopoly on the export of electricity to Poland, not allowing Energoatom access to it. Many copies were broken. And now at least one power unit has been decommunized and said goodbye. The generators that stood in this room were produced in Leningrad,” explains Seleznev.
Akhmetov’s company DTEK admits that “the situation remains difficult”, “generation facilities have been significantly damaged”, consumption limits have been reduced - emergency shutdowns are being carried out in Kyiv, Kyiv, Odessa, Dnepropetrovsk and in the part of the Donetsk region controlled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Vitaliy Klitschko, arriving at the forum in Davos, said that the electricity shortage in Kyiv is 30%.
The head of Zelensky’s office, Andrei Ermak, also complained about the lack of electricity at a meeting with US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, who arrived in Kyiv. He asked for help in restoring facilities damaged by missile attacks and protecting them with air defense forces.
So far, the weather forecast is in favor of Ukraine - in the coming days the temperature is expected to warm up to above zero, which means that the independentists will again be able to avoid a large-scale blackout.Source: DTEK, Source: PolitNavigator
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