The Energy and Coal Industry Ministry of Ukraine has ordered heightened security measures for the Ukrainian gas transport system from Tuesday, February 11 to ensure the provision of domestic consumers with natural gas and stable gas transit.
The order is stipulated in ministry resolution No. 131 of February 11, 2014 posted on the ministry’s Web site.
According to the document, national joint-stock company Naftogaz Ukrainy is ordered to take all the required measures to execute the resolution at its enterprises and companies and quickly react in case of abnormal situations.
The state holding is obliged to cooperate with the relevant territorial division of the State Emergencies Service of Ukraine, Interior Ministry of Ukraine, coordination groups of the Counter-Terrorism Center at the regional agencies of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) in the regions for 24 hours a day.
Earlier a statement of the Counter-Terrorism Center at the SBU was posted on the SBU’s Web site that the center has to alert terrorist prevention agencies in the state due to growth in the number of reports of possible terrorism – bomb planting at facilities visited by many people.
The SBU also said that there are bomb threats, including targeting hazardous facilities, such as nuclear and hydropower plants, the international airports in Kyiv, Lviv, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk and Simferopol, railway and bus terminals, and trunk pipelines.
The alert will apply to the Ukrainian Security Service, Interior Ministry, Emergency Situations Service, Health and Infrastructure Ministries, and “other counter-terrorism services and governing bodies, and aims exclusively to guarantee citizens’ security and to prevent terrorism.
