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Russia blocks trains carrying Kazakh coal to Ukraine

Russia’s state railway company has blocked the passage of freight trains carrying coal from Kazakhstan to Ukraine, lawmaker Andriy Gerus said on Nov. …
Max Hunder

Ukraine joins 23 countries in pledge to stop using coal

Ukraine joined 23 countries in agreeing to phase out the use of coal on Nov. 4 at the United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) …
Victoria Petryk

EBRD backs Ukrenergo’s $825 million green bailout 

The state electricity grid operator Ukrenergo announced on Nov. 3 that it placed $825 million green bonds in a bid to resolve the payments crisis …
Max Hunder

Ukraine orders emergency electricity imports from Belarus, Slovakia

Ukraine had to request 3,500 megawatt-hours of emergency electricity imports from Belarus and 800 megawatt-hours from Slovakia on Nov. 2 to make up …
Max Hunder

Russia refuses to book additional gas transit capacity in Ukraine

Russian gas monopoly Gazprom has not booked any additional gas transit capacity through Ukraine in 2022, according to data from the Gas Transmission …
Dylan Carter

Bureaucracy hampers US Halliburton & Alpha Energy gas project in Ukraine

U.S. oil and gas company Alpha Energy announced on Nov. 1 the signing of a memorandum of understanding with multinational oil corporation Halliburton …
Asami Terajima

Oleksiy Goncharenko: Why the world needs less Russian gas

It is no secret that for Vladimir Putin’s Russia, its natural resources are also a weapon with which the Kremlin is realizing its neo-imperial …
Oleksiy Goncharenko

Experts: Energy partnership is elusive between Ukraine, Turkey

Ukraine needs new energy partners and Turkey appears to be an ideal one. Turkish investors invested $400 million in Ukraine in 2020, making Turkey the …
Dylan Carter

Russia to stop exporting thermal coal to Ukraine from Nov. 1

Russia will cease exporting thermal coal to Ukraine from Nov. 1, Ukraine’s parliamentary energy committee head Andriy Gerus announced on Telegram on …
Max Hunder

Ukrenergo will circumvent court’s halt of electricity auction after DTEK suit

State-owned electricity grid operator Ukrenergo announced on Oct. 25 that it would use a special procedure to get around a court decision stopping it …
Max Hunder

Russia cut gas flow through Ukraine by 20% in October due to Hungary deal

Ukraine’s pipelines transported significantly less Russian gas than planned through the country in October, according to energy ministry adviser Olena …
Victoria Petryk

Bloomberg: Ukraine offers gas transit discount to Russia amid soaring prices

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has offered Russia a 50% discount for shipping natural gas to Europe via Ukraine as an incentive to boost …
Asami Terajima

Verkhovna Rada plans to ban private gas at market price

The parliament is ready to force private gas companies to sell gas below the market, David Arakhamia, head of the governing 243-member Servant of the …
Dylan Carter

Edward Chow: Another own goal in Ukrainian energy policy?

In an opinion piece published by the Kyiv Post on Aug. 23, I asked the rhetorical question of “whether they (Ukrainian authorities since 2019) seek to …
Edward Chow

Timothy Ash: All eyes on Ukraine

Lots going on, and this stuff is important for Ukraine and indeed European security. So to recap, Russia heaps the pressure on Germany/European Union …
Timothy Ash

After Nord Stream 2 promises, German fund lies dormant

In late July, the world understood that the Nord Stream 2 pipeline was a fait accompli.  A joint statement between the German and U.S. governments …
Max Hunder

Anka Feldhusen understands why Ukraine is disappointed

Anka Feldhusen, Germany’s Ukrainian-speaking ambassador in Kyiv who first came to the country in 1994, is well aware of the current disappointment in …
Brian Bonner

Nuclear giant Energoatom’s accounts blocked over long-running debt

Authorities blocked the accounts of state-owned nuclear giant Energoatom on Oct. 6 over a long-running debt of almost $5 million (Hr 127 million), the …
Alexander Query
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