President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is calling on other countries to follow the example of the United States and ban the import of Russian oil, gas and coal.
The Office of the President of Ukraine believes that the Russian command could not have been unaware of the threat that a large-scale tank attack on the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant posed to all of Europe.
One power unit is working at the occupied Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant (NPP) and the staff have been allowed to return to work, but all six power units contain nuclear fuel and if they are hit by a missile, the consequences will be catastrophic.
Olena Roschyna – Saturday, 26 February 2022, 09:04
Herman Galuschenko, Ukraine’s Minister of Energy stated that the country’s armed forces protected the Kyiv hydroelectric power plant (HPP) from the Russian occupiers, and that the HPP it is working again.
Source: Galushchenko and the Ministry of Energy on Facebook
In February 2016 the partner of Dmytro Vovk, Chief of the National Commission for State Regulation of Energy and Public Utilities bought real estate in Kyivska Oblast worth $1.5-2 million
Ukraine can’t fully eschew coal from the occupied territories in the short run, Energy Minister Ihor Nasalyk said at a press conference on Thursday, August 4.
Radical Party MP Andriy Artemenko claims a serious accident, involving nuclear containment failure, occurred at Khmelnytskyi Nuclear Power Plant on July 16. National Nuclear Energy Generating Company of Ukraine (Energoatom) denies this information.
The accounts of Kyivenergo and over 100 other energy companies all over Ukraine have been unfrozen and providers of utility services are able to resume preparation for the winter season.
In occupied Horlivka, a group of militants together with the head of the company that manages electricity systems created by the authorities of the ‘Donetsk People’s Republic’, seized a building that belongs to Ukrainian state-owned energy company Ukrenergo.