Deputy Minister for the occupied territories, the George Tooke does not support the embargo beyond the control of parts of Donbas. About it Fat said on air of the ICTV.
Tuck stressed that as such the coal trade with the uncontrolled territories is not happening.
“As such, the coal trade does not exist. The fact that coal is uses mostly two legal institutions – “Centrenergo” and DTEK. There are different mines in the uncontrolled territories. And not all supply us with coal. Those mines that supply, they belong to DTEK. In fact, the company itself transports its own cargo. No funds for the mines of DTEK lists them, except for the salaries of miners, which they receive on a Bank card “the savings Bank”. … But the mine as a legal institution to your account don’t get,” said Tuck.
“This coal then goes to the processing plant on our territory, then the coal on generation after that, as heat or light falls into the house,” said Tuck.
As for other commodities, which are transported via the boundary line, most often, according to tookie, a technique necessary for the functioning of Ukrainian enterprises forced to work in uncontrolled territory.
“If there is a need to buy something for mine – horoshee, engines, etc. – it is bought by the main Filia here in Ukraine and with the permission of the SBU are transferred to the mine. The same mechanism works, for example, to “Ukrzaliznytsya”, – said the fat.
Small businesses trade across the line of limitations and is necessary for survival, says Tuka.
“If we are talking about small entrepreneurs, who for the sake of survival forced several times a week to run with kravchuchki through the checkpoints in order to buy something, I to allow them to do it. And even to allow them to carry more cargo,” – said the Deputy Minister.
As previously reported, the beginning of the blockade controlled by the Ukrainian government of the district said a group of activists called veterans of the volunteer battalions “Donbass” and “Aydar”. At the same time, the first commander of the battalion “Aydar” Sergey Melnichuk has denied the existence in the ranks of the activists of these “aidarova”. According to him, this former smugglers who are trying to regain control of the flows of illegal goods.
According to the Director of energy programs of the Center for world economy and international relations of national Academy of Sciences Valentin Zemlyansky, in the case of a full block of coal from ORDO factor of safety of the Ukrainian energy sector will not last for more than a month.
The Minister for the temporarily occupied territories and internally displaced persons Vadim Chernysh said that the possible blocking of the movement of goods with the coal controlled by the Ukrainian government areas of Donbass can lead to power outages across the territory of Ukraine.
The Prosecutor’s office opened criminal proceedings on the fact of blocking of the railway in the Luhansk region.
Note that the blockade will inevitably lead not only to rolling blackouts, but also to the shortfall in the budget. Alternative – coal from Russia. The purchase of coal in Russia is possible only for the currency at a high price that will inevitably lead to the growth rate. Moreover, the blockade is a priori illegal and undermines the investment climate of the country, and this is not a short-term problem for the country, and the damage for years. In the end, Russia wins, Ukraine will lose.
