Ukraine continues talks on the possibility of importing electricity from Russia, but the Russian side insists that such supplies will be possible if Crimea is provided with electricity, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Volodymyr Demchyshyn has said.
“One of the conditions of imports from Russia is supplying Crimea [with electricity],” he said at a briefing in Kyiv on Dec. 5.
He said that it was wrong to raise this issue as the issue of transit of Russian electricity to the peninsula.
Demchyshyn recalled that Ukraine currently sells 400 megawatts of electricity to Crimea, but amid the shortage of capacity it has to limit supplies to the peninsula, as well as to consumers across the country.
