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Ukraine boosted electricity exports 26% year-on-year in January-April to 3.159 billion kilowatt-hours, a source at the Energy and Coal Industry Ministry told Interfax-Ukraine.

Electricity exports from the Burshtyn Energy Island to Hungary, Slovakia and Romania rose 33% to 1.521 billion kWh. Exports to Poland totaled 311.6 million kWh, up 12.9% year-on-year.

Exports of electricity to Central European countries Hungary, Slovakia, Romania and Poland as a whole grew 29.1% to 1.832 billion kWh.

Belarus imported 1.024 billion kWh of Ukrainian electricity in January-April 2013, up 20.3% year-on-year.

Moldova imported 302.3 million kWh of Ukrainian electricity in January-April 2013, up 27.4% year-on-year.

Ukraine did not export electricity to Russia in 2012 and 2013.

The main exporters of Ukrainian electricity are DTEK Skhidenergo and DTEK Power Trade. As was the case in the two previous years, DTEK in 2013 obtained monopoly right to export electricity to European countries.