Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine Valeriy Bosevski ordered the responsible authorities to prevent stop activities from leading enterprises of the space industry of Ukraine - Yuzhny machine-building enterprises because of the danger of large-scale man-made disaster due to the restriction of supply of electric energy, informs the press service of the Cabinet.

before the last working day of the week Ukraine's largest private energy holding DTEK, controlled by businessman Rinat Akhmetov, has limited the supply of electrical energy at the largest in Ukraine the enterprise for the production of rocket and space technology - South engineering company name Makarov (Yuzhmash ) because of accumulated debts for electricity supplied in the amount of 238 million. Now the company is powered by one of 2 lines of the main supply.

"The Ministry of energy and coal industry, Ministry of ecology and natural resources and the state space Agency of Ukraine is obliged without delay to have an impact on preventing outages on" southern machine-building plant named after. A. M. Makarov " in Dnepropetrovsk ", - is informed in the report.

According to the press service of the Cabinet, "DTEK" Dniprooblenergo "informed about the company scheduled on July 30, de-energization of one of the main input supply" Yuzhmash ".

As emphasized in the enterprise, the volume of backup power is enough only to supply power to the temperature control systems of rocket fuel tanks, and fire alarm, informs the press service.

"This situation increases the probability of bringing to a full stop of work of the enterprise. And this, for its part, the Risk for the occurrence of large-scale man-made disaster. We must immediately work to prevent such. It is necessary to take measures to provide the company an environmental reserve of power supply and start the procedure of repayment of debt for the consumed electric power ", - noted Bosevski.

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