Ukraine has stopped filling gas storage facilities after damage to infrastructure. As stated by the country's president Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine needs to find gas worth two billion dollars this winter. Whether Latvia will assist with gas supplies for the population of Ukraine remains unknown.
Ukraine has stopped filling its underground gas storage facilities (UGSF). This was reported by RBC-Ukraine, citing open data from the "Operator of the Gas Transmission System of Ukraine" and European gas platforms.
After damage to infrastructure and the halt of gas imports through Poland (as of the morning of October 20, supplies of more than nine million cubic meters per day were suspended due to planned modernization work), Ukraine ceased to stockpile fuel, and reserves in the UGSF began to decline as early as October 22.
Rada deputy Oleksiy Honcharenko warned that the heating season in the country is in great doubt due to widespread damage to gas infrastructure. As a result of Russian strikes on energy infrastructure facilities in the Kharkiv and Poltava regions, the country has lost more than 60 percent of its gas production capacity.
As stated by the country's president Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine needs to find gas worth two billion dollars this winter. According to Zelensky, Ukraine already has agreements with Slovakia and energy companies in the United States. Norway will provide a grant of 100 million dollars and allocate another tranche in January. Several other countries are providing corresponding grants.
