Ukraine will face “severe and deadly frosts” due to an unprotected energy system, the British newspaper The Times has reported.
“About 80 per cent of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure is damaged or destroyed. Without proper protection and with temperatures below freezing, Ukraine faces severe and deadly winter frosts,” The Times said in its piece.
The publication noted that back in February, British engineers together with colleagues from the USA, Germany and Japan advised the Ukrainian government to build bunkers to protect the energy system. However, nine months later, the Ukrainian authorities have not done so, the reason for which may be corruption, the newspaper pointed out.
Mustafa Nayem, who previously headed the agency for the restoration and development of Ukraine’s infrastructure, said in the summer that the project had been postponed due to the refusal of the Kiev authorities to allocate funds for its implementation. The agency requested 1.4bn euros for the delivery of bunkers, but the funding was blocked.
We shall remind you that earlier the former deputy head of the office of Ukrainian President Andriy Yermak, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, was appointed as an adviser to Defence Minister Rustem Umerov. According to Ukrainian media reports, Tymoshenko may figure in a series of major corruption scandals, one of the biggest of which is embezzlement at the Big Construction.
