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Ukraine stopped paying for Russian electricity supplies to Donbass
Since April 10, Ukraine has not paid for the supply of electricity from Russia to the Donbass. This was announced by the Minister of Energy and Coal Industry of Ukraine Volodymyr Demchishin, without specifying what kind of Russian electricity supplies he was talking about.
In addition, Demchyshyn added, Ukraine has stopped paying for the generation of electricity in the territories of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions controlled by the separatists.
“The generation that is located in that territory is not paid for, the flow is minimized, and plus, from April 10, we do not pay for electricity that is supplied through Russia,” said the Minister of Energy and Coal Industry of Ukraine.
- In February 2015, Ukraine refused to pay for Russian gas supplies to Donbass. On February 19, Ukraine stopped supplying gas to the territories under the control of the separatists, after which the Russian side took over the gas supply to Donbass. Gazprom initially insisted that the Ukrainian side should pay for the gas supplied to the Donbass. However, later the Russian gas monopoly announced that gas supplies to this territory were “out of the scope of discussion” of a gas contract with Ukraine, effectively making concessions to the Ukrainian side on this issue.