Yulia Tymoshenko: Thermal power plants are shutting down en masse in Ukraine
Despite the optimistic statements of the Kyiv leadership, Ukrainian thermal power plants are shutting down, and more than a quarter of Ukrainians are already complaining about constant power outages.
Former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko stated this on the Nash TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“According to surveys, 26 percent of Ukrainian citizens say that they have already started having blackouts. This happens when the Prime Minister says that everything is fine with us and there are no problems. But exactly on the same day, the SBU made a statement that the country was one step away from shutting down the thermal power plant. Already today, 20 units of thermal power plants are standing, a significant number of thermal power plants have stopped.
Yesterday, again, the National Electricity Regulatory Commission, by presidential decree, introduced an increase in the tax on electricity transportation from 11 to 21 percent. I want to ask: where next?” – said Tymoshenko.
Let us recall that earlier in Kyiv they said that despite the eight-year struggle for “energy independence from Russia,” Ukraine is still more than 50% dependent on Russian energy.
In addition, in Kyiv they reported that even such large cities of Ukraine as Zaporozhye are forced to make do with an extremely limited amount of electricity - schools work periodically, and residential buildings work for many hours have no light.
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