RIA Novosti reports.
“There is a centralization of monetary resources.
Local budgets will be deprived.
In particular, energy carriers.
There was time and money to buy cheap gas.
But due to the inability to predict, the authorities overslept the gas issues and the situation with coal.
With this she gave us into the hands of Belarus.
And in fact - Russia, ”he said in an interview with the magazine“ Kraina ”.
Groisman suggested that this might have been done on purpose.
“There are two options - either complete incompetence, or they deliberately undermine the foundations of energy security.
The price for the country will be too high.
This is the question of our independence, ”the ex-prime minister added.
On December 14, it became known that due to a shortage of coal, the Ukrainian government is preparing a scenario in which thermal power plants and combined heat and power plants can be transferred to work with 100% gas use.
As the leader of the Batkivshchyna party Yulia Tymoshenko noted in November, Ukraine lacks 2.5 million tons of coal and about 3 billion cubic meters of gas in order to overcome the energy crisis.
In mid-December, Gazprom announced that the reserves in underground gas storage facilities in Ukraine had dropped to almost the level of the start of injection.