“Centralization of monetary resources is in progress. Local budgets will be deprived. In & nbsp; in particular, energy. There was money and & nbsp; time to buy cheap gas. But & nbsp; because of & nbsp; inability to predict, the authorities overslept the gas issues and & nbsp; the situation with & nbsp; coal. With this she gave us to the & nbsp; hands of Belarus. And & nbsp; by & nbsp; essence & nbsp; & mdash; Russia & raquo;, & nbsp; & mdash; he stated & nbsp; in & nbsp; interview to the magazine “ Country ''.
Groisman believes that & nbsp; this could have been done on purpose.
“ There are two options & nbsp; & mdash; either complete incompetence, or deliberately undermine the foundations of energy security. The price for a & nbsp; country will be too high. Here is the question of our independence & raquo;, & nbsp; & mdash; said the politician.
December 17 & nbsp; head of the board of Naftogaz Yuriy Vitrenko admitted that & nbsp; the company would not & nbsp; be able to keep tariffs for & nbsp; gas for & nbsp; citizens at & nbsp; current level due to & nbsp; rise in fuel prices in & nbsp; Europe. According to & nbsp; he said, the prices for & nbsp; gas in & nbsp; Europe have grown in & nbsp; seven times over a year. At the & nbsp; present, the Ukrainian government is working to & nbsp; so that citizens do not & nbsp; overpay seven times.
According to the data of the “ Operator of GTS of Ukraine '' on & nbsp; 14 & nbsp; December, gas reserves in & nbsp; Ukrainian underground storage facilities (UGS) dropped below the level of the beginning of its injection in & nbsp; current year. According to the & nbsp; data of the company, 74.56 & nbsp; million cubic meters were taken from & nbsp; UGS facilities in Ukraine in & nbsp; day. m & nbsp; gas. With & nbsp; this, the total level of stocks in & nbsp; storage facilities dropped to & nbsp; 15.258 billion cubic meters. M. and & nbsp; & nbsp; problems with & nbsp; winter should not be & nbsp ;. At & nbsp; then & nbsp; at the same time he & nbsp; noted that & nbsp; in the country there was a difficult situation with & nbsp; coal, however, the company can insure power generating enterprises.
In November, the head of the Union of Consumers of Utilities of Ukraine Oleg Popenko said that & nbsp ; a difficult energy situation in the & nbsp; country will lead to a collapse of the economy. He & nbsp; assured that & nbsp; no Ukrainian company & nbsp; will not withstand tariff increases, because & nbsp; the economy is based on & nbsp; cheap electricity.