Ukraine is ready to export surplus electricity to Germany, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Shmigal said. Meanwhile, Moscow announced that Ukrainian forces had made an unsuccessful attempt to seize the nuclear power plant in Zaporozhye during the night.
“Thanks to the nuclear power plants, we have enough electricity in Ukraine. I will talk about this during my visit to Berlin and then also to Brussels,” announced the Ukrainian Prime Minister, who will arrive in Berlin today, where he will be received by the German Chancellor on Sunday Olaf Scholz.
As he said, Ukraine currently exports electricity to Moldova, Romania, on Slovakia and Poland. “However, we are also ready to export to Germany,” he added He swiped.
Ukraine, along with neighboring Moldova, disconnected from the former Soviet power grid in February. The Ukrainian electricity grid, which has been since the beginning of Russian aggression on country on February 24, it was operating in isolation, then it was connected in mid-March on European network. Since then, the country has been exporting 400 to 700 megawatt hours of electricity to the European Union and Moldova daily, reports the German news agency DPA.
He swiped now wants to increase export quotas for the EU many times over. “This would be very good for both sides. The EU would get more energy, and we would get foreign currency, which we urgently need,” said the Ukrainian Prime Minister.
Soviet-made nuclear power plants with a total capacity of more than 14 gigawatt hours are operating in Ukraine. With the Russian invasion, Ukraine’s electricity consumption has also fallen sharply due to fighting, refugee flight and economic decline, freeing up export capacity.
Due to the situation at the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant in the city Energodarwhich has been under Russian control since March, there is growing concern and a series of warnings from the international community that shelling the area of the power plant could cause a nuclear accident.
Moscow: Ukrainian forces failed to seize power plants
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that the Ukrainians tried to seize the nuclear power plant in Zaporozhye on Friday night. 250 soldiers, members of the navy, are supposed to mackerel disembark on on the shore of the lake near the power plant on south of the country.
Russian forces repelled the attack using military helicopters and fighter jets, Moscow said. Reuters reported that it could not verify the ministry’s claims.
Turkey would intervene in the dispute over the power plant
Turkey can mediate in the dispute over the nuclear power plant in Zaporozhye, which was occupied by Russia, he said in a telephone conversation with the Russian president Vladimir Putin said the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
As he said, Turkey can play the role of a mediator, as it did in the agreement regarding the export of Ukrainian grain from Ukrainian Black Sea ports, the Turkish presidency said.
The leaders confirmed in the conversation “the intention to expand trade and economic ties, including the promotion of joint strategic projects in the energy sector”, they announced from the Kremlin.
Erdogan and Putin remain committed construction of Turkey’s first nuclear power plant Akkuyu according to the plan, according to the Russian news agency Tass, the office of the Turkish president announced.
According to Ankara, Erdogan and Putin agreed to continue talks on this matter in mid-September in Uzbekistan on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit.
Gazprom will across Ukraine sent slightly more gas on Saturday
Meanwhile, the Russian energy giant Gazprom announced that it will send 42.7 million cubic meters of natural gas to Europe through Ukraine on Saturday.
Gazprom made the announcement just hours after announcing that it would not restore gas flows to Germany via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline as initially planned.
Over On Saturday, Russia will deliver slightly more gas to Ukraine than on Friday, when it sent 41.3 million cubic meters, but not enough to compensate for the outage due to the closure of the Nord Stream 1 inflow.
Gazprom referred to the closure of Nord Stream 1 on the fact that an oil leak was discovered in the turbine during maintenance work and that repair is only possible in specialized workshops. In Siemens, which is the manufacturer of the turbine, they have already denied the failure of the equipment.
Moscow responded with this on Friday’s decision by the G7 countries to agree to limit oil prices will prevent Moscow from profiting from the consequences of the war in Ukraine, reports AFP.
Gentiloni: The EU is ready on complete interruption of gas supply
European Commissioner for the Economy Paolo Gentiloni assured that the European Union, due to energy saving measures and diversification supply is well prepared in the event of a complete interruption of the supply of Russian gas.
“We are well prepared to resist Russia’s extreme use of gas as a weapon,” he said, according to the French news agency AFP, on the sidelines of the business conference organized by the European House Ambrosetti in an Italian city Cernobbio by Lake Como.
“We are not afraid of Putin’s decisions, we ask the Russians to respect the treaties, but if they don’t do it, we are ready to react,” he emphasized.
Gentiloni reminded that the gas storages are in the European Union “because diversification of care” currently 80% filled, although the situation in individual countries varies.
Source: Rtvslo
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