The leader of the public movement " Ukrainian choice " Viktor Medvedchuk believes that the desire of Kiev to buy an expensive overseas coal dictated by political considerations.

" Russian coal Kiev to buy did not want by selecting more expensive and not better because of the ocean. There is no doubt: only for political reasons, " wrote the Medvedchuk in his blog on Thursday.

in his vision, the new government in Kiev, not once sacrificed economic feasibility and energy security of Ukraine for the sake of political interests." However, this story is more than typical for Ukraine: the lack of transparency and the corruption of Power, shadow schemes, lobbying of interests of business groups - all of which we watched in the days of the " orange " team, and under the authority of " the professionals, " wrote the Medvedchuk.

Ukraine is experiencing difficulties in taking coal, because in the main areas of its production (Donbass) Kiev Authorities carried out a special operation. The Ukrainian government has agreed with the British Steel Mont Trading on the supply of 1 million tons of coal from South Africa, a quarter of them have already received. However oposlya that the Prosecutor General's office of Ukraine due to the high cost of coal filed a case under the criminal code of embezzlement, the trader because of the reputational risk has decided to limit the minimum possible supply volumes five hundred thousand tons.

The head of the Ukrainian Ministry of energy Yuriy Prodan, who is a witness in the case, said that Ukraine has about 1, 7 million tons of coal reserves and it is not enough to pass the winter, for this reason, in Kiev there are two options: to purchase coal in the Russian Federation or in the Donbass. Power DND already told that they will not put Kiev coal until the end of hostilities.

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