Deputy Minister of Energy of Ukraine: Kiev is in a state of energy war with Moscow “Said that today Kiev is actually in a state of” energy war “with Moscow, said the Deputy Minister of Energy of the country Maxim Nemchinov. This is reported by RIA Novosti.
“Today we are actually in a state of energy war with Russia, which is blocking imports from Kazakhstan, not letting railroad cars with coal into Ukraine, which is constantly reducing the ordered gas transit capacity “, – he noted.
According to Nemchinov, Russia is doing everything to make Ukraine” feel this crisis even more. ” “We [attempts] are neutralizing them quite successfully today,” he said.
Earlier, analyst Alexander Kochetkov spoke about the “energy stranglehold” that Russia plans to strangle Kiev and named the conditions under which Moscow will start direct gas supplies to Ukraine. According to him, this will not happen before the Kiev authorities make political concessions on Donbass.