Ukraine PM urges power aid for Poland
PR dla Zagranicy
Jo Harper
13.08.2015 11:50
Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk on Thursday requested the Ukrainian Energy Ministry to assist Poland with its energy crisis caused by the current heat wave.
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"We should support Poland, which has been friendly to us, and do everything to help our partner in stabilising the situation in the energy sector in the shortest possible time," Yatsenyuk told a meeting of the Council of Ministers.
On Wednesday the Ukrainian Energy Minister Volodymyr Demchyshyn told reporters that there was no possibility of increasing the supply of electricity to Poland. "We cannot help them today," he said.
Demchyshyn explained that this is due to the renovation of power plants in the Ivano-Frankivsk and Lviv regions in western Ukraine, which supply electricity to Poland, among others.
The recent heat wave in Poland has forced the national supplier to cut electricity to factories for several hours a day. Temperatures in places have reached 38° Celsius and there has been almost no rainfall, also leading to a drought in agriculture. (jh/rg/rk)