The national energy regulator has allowed Ukraine’s coal power plants to purchase gas to produce electricity.
The latest allegations brought against former energy minister Volodymyr Demchyshyn are in fact part of smear campaign targeting former Ukrainian president Pertro Poroshenko, claim the former president’s legal team.
Energy shortages add to the woes of the pandemic-hit Ukraine as the government efforts to buy coal from as far as Kazakhstan are hampered by Moscow, said the energy deputy minister Maksym Nemchynov in an interview for 1+1 TV channel.