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Through an agreement with the European Commission, Ukraine has received 5,876 solar panels to help power hospitals across the country, Ukraine's Energy Ministry announced to social media on July 2. As Russia's attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure have increased, Ukrainians continue to face lengthy, daily interruptions in access to electricity. The panels, which were produced by Italian manufacturer Enel, will produce a total capacity of approximately 2 megawatts of electricity for hospitals in Zhytomyr, Volyn, Khmelnytskyi, Kyiv, and Odesa oblasts, the Energy Ministry said. "In the condi...
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Editor’s Note: This article was published by the twice-weekly newsletter “The Counteroffensive with Tim Mak” on June 27, 2024, and has been re-published by the Kyiv Independent with permission. To subscribe to "The Counteroffensive," click here. When the explosions hit the thermal power plant, senior machinist Ihor* was at home, preparing for his shift. Living close to the plant, he heard the explosions clearly. Unlike most, Ihor moved toward the explosions. "One day you come in and see everything destroyed, and realize that all your work is gone,” said Ihor, who has worked at the plant for 24...
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Ukrainians will face lengthy, daily interruptions in electricity until the end of July as scheduled repairs at nuclear power plants put further strain on the country's already heavily damaged energy system, the head of grid operator Ukrenergo Volodymyr Kudritsky said. "The next week and even the next few weeks the situation will be much more difficult than today," he told Suspilne TV, adding that the heaviest blackouts will occur between 11 a.m. and 11 p.m. Repairs on reactor units on Ukraine's nuclear power plants necessitate the power cuts as Russian attacks have destroyed or damaged non-nuc...
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Editor’s Note: This is issue 135 of Ukrainian State-Owned Enterprises Weekly, covering events from June 2-8, 2024. The Kyiv Independent is reposting it with permission. The Cabinet approved the Reforms Matrix based on international partners’ recommendations on June 4. According to Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal, more than 200 reforms are planned for 2024. To monitor implementation, the Cabinet’s decision also defined 400 indicators and launched a special website for tracking progress. The Reforms Matrix consists of four structural documents: the European Commission’s Recommendations for Ukraine’...
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Ukraine’s recovery and reconstruction are impossible to separate from the country’s EU integration and accession aspirations. If the country wants to enter the EU, it will have to get its rules and regulations in line with the bloc, across every field. Many of these reforms will involve sectors central to the rebuilding of the country, namely construction and energy. Which is why the annual Ukraine recovery conference taking place in Berlin June 11-12 this year includes, among other things, an EU accession and reform track to push forward the reform process in Ukraine, and to move it toward it...
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Editor’s Note: This is issue 134 of Ukrainian State-Owned Enterprises Weekly, covering events from May 25 – June 1, 2024. The Kyiv Independent is reposting it with permission. Energy sectorUkrainian energy facilities struck again. In the early morning of June 1, Russia attacked Ukraine’s energy infrastructure in Zaporizhzhia, Dnipro, Donetsk, Kirovohrad, and Ivano-Frankivsk oblasts, the Ukrainian Energy Ministry reported. This is Russia’s sixth massive drone strike on energy facilities since March 22, the ministry said. Because of the attack, Ukrenergo had to impose additional electricity rati...
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Ukraine implemented rolling blackouts on May 15 due to power shortages caused by Russian attacks, Ukraine's state-owned energy operator Ukrenergo announced. Moscow has recently intensified its missile and drone strikes against Ukraine's critical infrastructure, destroying several thermal power plants across the country. This included the Trypillia plant, the main electricity supplier to Kyiv, Zhytomyr, and Cherkasy oblasts. Earlier in the day, Ukrenergo introduced emergency shutdowns for industrial and domestic users from 7:25 to 10 p.m. local time across all regions of Ukraine. Limitations ar...
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Editor’s Note: This is issue 131 of Ukrainian State-Owned Enterprises Weekly, covering events from May 4-10, 2024. The Kyiv Independent is reposting it with permission. Corporate governance of SOEsCabinet appoints new acting CEO for Ukrspyrt. On May 3, Stanislav Banchuk was appointed to the position. On May 6, Ukrspyrt confirmed Banchuk’s appointment, with no further details. Banchuk previously had a legal practice in Kyiv. A person by that name was deputy regional prosecutor of Chernivtsi Oblast until 2014 according to Ekonomichna Pravda (EP). According to YouControl, Banchuk founded Standart...
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Italy has overcome its dependence on Russian gas and will not oppose the proposed package of EU sanctions on liquified natural gas (LNG), Italian Energy Minister Gilberto Pichetto Fratin said, as reported by Politico on April 28. The European bloc has already adopted 13 packages in response to Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, aiming to undermine Moscow's economic output and the ability to sustain the war. In early April, EU Executive Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis announced that the 14th package is in the works. Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom later said the new package co...
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The following is a chart based off of data originally published in the Kyiv-based Center of Economic Strategy's "Ukraine War Economy Tracker." The Kyiv Independent is republishing it with permission. Ukraine is forced to rely on electricity imports after Russian attacks Net commercial exports of electricity, MWh Positive net exports Negative net exports Source: entso-a • Difference between incoming and outgoing scheduled Commercial Exchanges from Ukraine, Border-Country, total for all countries bordering Ukraine On April 11, Russia carried out another large-scale attack on Ukraine's energy inf...
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