Kiev during the peak summer heat approached Moscow with a request to provide technical assistance and to supply electricity, but was refused, said the Minister of energy and coal industry of Ukraine Igor Nasalik.
“We have requested technical assistance to Russia, which we were denied this aid,” he said, reports “Today”.
Nasalik said that Ukraine managed to pass the peak load conditions of termination of the supply of coal from uncontrolled territories of Donbass without electricity imports.
He also stressed that the autumn-winter period, electricity consumption which is now lower than in the separate summer periods, will also be completed without rolling blackouts.
In July, district authorities of Kyiv region received from the Ukrainian capital, warning of possible rolling blackouts in connection with its shortage. Later it was reported that in connection with the shortage of anthracite coal seven Ukrainian power plants can stop the job, has already begun a power outage in coal mines.
