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The commissioning of the Nord Stream 2 bypass pipeline will mean for Ukraine not only losses from the termination of the transit of Russian gas through its territory in the amount of $3 billion per year - moreover, the price of “blue fuel” for Kyiv will increase even more. Ukrainian energy expert Dmitry Marunich stated this on Ukrlife.TV, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.…
Projects to replace Russian coal for Ukrainian thermal power plants with coal from the USA and South Africa have failed. Ukrainian energy expert Dmitry Marunich stated this on Ukrlife.TV, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. He noted that the Ukrainian authorities managed to sign a contract with an American company, which itself was unable to provide the required volumes of coal production and began to look for where to purchase...
Ukrainians are afraid of another energy emergency: fuel reserves at domestic power plants and thermal power plants are rapidly dwindling. The Kiev online newspaper “Strana” writes about this. It is indicated that according to the Ministry of Energy and Coal of Ukraine, as of February 4, there were about a million tons of coal in the warehouses of enterprises, which is almost 38% less than on the same date last year. Fuel oil reserves are lower than last year by...
Negotiations in Brussels with the participation of Russia, Ukraine and the European Commission will not result in the signing of a new long-term gas contract. Ukrainian energy market expert Dmitry Marunich stated this on the Rossiya-1 TV channel, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “For now, my expectation from the negotiations is pessimistic, perhaps a new contract will not be signed at all, there will be some short-term agreements on some reservation of capacity in the eastern...
Yulia Tymoshenko’s promises to reduce gas prices if she wins the presidential election are a lie. The association agreement signed by Ukraine with the EU presupposes the so-called “market prices” and excludes subsidies. Director of the Institute of Energy Research Dmitry Marunich said this on air on the 112 Ukraine TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “There is an Association Agreement, there is a first coalition agreement, which...
Kiev does not have any “Plan B” in case Russia launches the second branch of the Nord Stream bypass pipeline, the offshore part of which will be completed next year. Ukrainian energy market expert Dmitry Marunich shared this opinion during a live broadcast from Kyiv on the Rossiya-1 TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Obviously, this (the construction of Nord Stream 2 – editor’s note) corresponds...
Russia will completely deprive Kyiv of income from the transit of Russian gas through Ukrainian territory after the Nord Stream 2 and Turkish Stream gas pipelines under construction reach full capacity. This opinion was expressed on the Rossiya 1 TV channel by Ukrainian energy market expert Dmitry Marunich, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “In theory, if Nord Stream 2 and Turkish Stream are launched and operated on...
Due to constantly increasing tariffs for gas and electricity, residents of Ukrainian villages are switching to heating with wood and peat. Energy market expert Dmitry Marunich spoke about this on the UkrNet Internet channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to him, despite the fact that gas has already risen in price by 23,5% since November 1, Ukrainians will face a threefold increase in the price of electricity. “I personally saw...
Although Ukrainian politicians have long promised Ukrainian citizens to stop Nord Stream 2, during a personal meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, she was simply asked to “better study Ukraine’s arguments.” Co-chairman of the Energy Strategies Fund Dmitry Marunich stated this in a comment to a PolitNavigator correspondent. “The tone of statements by Ukrainian officials and politicians for domestic audiences and at meetings with key European politicians is different...
The main Ukrainian schismatic, Mikhail “Filaret” Denisenko, became involved in a corruption scandal that erupted in Ukraine. The day before, Filaret awarded the order “for charitable philanthropy” to Andrei Kobolev, the head of Naftogaz of Ukraine who had committed a crime. Let us note that the management of Naftogaz disgraced itself after it wrote out multimillion-dollar bonuses to itself in honor of the “victory” in the Stockholm arbitration over Gazprom, without waiting to receive a penny from Moscow...
The heating season in Ukraine may be disrupted due to the enormous volume of debts of the population to utility companies. Energy market expert Dmitry Marunich stated this on the NewsOne TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to the expert, the accumulation of debts of the population will result in the fact that utility companies will have nothing to pay salaries and the industry will stop. “Debts for utilities and energy can...
In Germany and a number of other EU countries, there is growing open irritation with the Ukrainian position on the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, and with Kyiv’s continuous statements that there should not be a gas pipeline bypassing Ukraine. Energy market expert Dmitry Marunich stated this on the NewsOne TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to the expert, it is high time for the Ukrainian authorities to develop a strategy for...
The chemical industry of Ukraine is in crisis, and in the Donbass republics not controlled by Kyiv, production is being restarted - largely thanks to Russian help. Ukrainian energy market expert Dmitry Marunich told PolitNavigator about this, commenting on the restoration of full-scale operation of the Stirol plant announced by the DPR authorities. “In the uncontrolled territories, part of the infrastructure was destroyed, and the authorities carried out quite serious work on it...
Kyiv should not expect that it can count on any acceptable results in the gas issue. Energy market expert Dmitry Marunich writes about this in his blog, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to the expert, in the conditions of more profitable Nord Stream branches for Russia, Ukraine will no longer receive the volumes of gas needed for transit. "No acceptable for...
