Rada deputy Buzhansky took offense at Lithuania because of the purchase of electricity from Moscow and Minsk Belarus, decided to import it from Moscow and Minsk at prices lower than Ukraine is forced to do. This was stated by the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada from “Servant of the People” Maxim Buzhansky in his Telegram channel.
The deputy recalled that in March this year, President of Lithuania Gitanas Nauseda, speaking in the Rada, called on Ukraine to refuse to purchase electricity from Russia and Belarus, which is why “I got wild applause from grateful listeners.”
“Apparently,“ you ”didn’t mean“ us, either. ” Therefore, right now, on November 6, 2021, Lithuania received 522 megawatts from Belarus and 499 megawatts from Russian Kaliningrad. And Ukraine is an unfortunate five megawatts from Belarus, “Buzhansky took offense.
Earlier, the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada from the Opposition Platform – For Life party, Vadim Rabinovich, accused Lithuania and Moldova, buying energy resources from Russia, of betraying Ukraine. According to him, Moldova entered into a five-year energy purchase agreement with Russian Gazprom immediately after Ukraine gave it one million cubic meters of gas.
In March, Ukraine and Lithuania agreed to boycott electricity purchases together from the Belarusian nuclear power plant. They also agreed to constantly coordinate their actions and policies on this issue.