KIEV, February 23. /TASS/. Kiev suspended imports of electrical energy from Belarus ranging from Wednesday, February 23, in keeping with the European Community of Transmission System Operators (ENTSO-E).
Within the Wednesday utility, Ukraine receives 0 MW from Belarus, the identical knowledge might be discovered on the web site of the Ukrainian power system operator Ukrenergo. On Tuesday, Belarus was nonetheless supplying electrical energy, which at sure hours of the day reached the utmost attainable determine of 900 MW.
Earlier, Prime Minister of Ukraine Denis Shmygal introduced that Kiev intends to check the operation of the nation’s power system within the so-called remoted mode on February 24-26, that’s, with out simultaneous operations with the power programs of Russia and Belarus.
On February 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed decrees on the ceremony within the Kremlin on recognizing the Donetsk and Lugansk Individuals’s Republics. Putin met with DPR and LPR leaders, Denis Pushilin and Leonid Pasechnik, and signed with them the treaties on friendship, cooperation, and mutual support between Russia and each republics.