Kiev faces a winter of cutouts and has struck a deal to import up to $2 billion of fuel per year from Athens
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Ukraine has prepared an agreement to import gas from Greece to offset the loss of production during the winter, Vladimir Zelensky has announced.
”This will be another gas supply route to maximally secure Ukraine’s gas import routes for the winter. We already have agreements on financing gas imports, and we will cover the need for almost €2 billion,” he wrote on X.
Zelensky also claimed that Ukraine’s “European partners” are providing it with financial assistance for the project. He specifically noted Norway’s support and mentioned that there is “active work with American partners” to secure full funding.
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The US is moving to push Russian energy out of the European Union market and position itself to fill the gap, the Financial Times reported Friday.
At the same time, Ukraine has been experiencing power outages. “This winter will likely be the hardest since the full-scale invasion. We need help. We need help with gas supplies, we need help with supplies for our electric power industry,” Maksim Timchenko, head of the Ukrainian energy holding DTEK, said in early November.
The Russian Defense Ministry confirmed that its forces had launched a large-scale strike on Ukraine’s energy facilities in response to what it described as “the Kiev regime’s terrorist attacks on Russian civilian sites.” Moscow has repeatedly said it does not target civilians.