Lithuania is concerned about the penetration of Belarusian electricity in the Ukrainian market

Trade flows from this could help further develop the dangerous nuclear power plant at Ostrovets, they say in Lithuania.

Lithuania is concerned that electricity from Belarus will enter the Ukrainian market. This was stated by Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielus Landsbergis in a briefing after a meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart Dmitry Kuleba in Kiev on Tuesday, February 23.

“I expressed my country’s concern that Belarusian electricity is entering the Ukrainian market. Trade flows into Ukraine could help further develop the dangerous nuclear power plant in Ostrovets,” Landsbergis said.

At the same time, Kuleba explained that since Soviet times, the Ukrainian power grid has been connected to the Belarusian and Russian.

“But we want to cut it off and make the Ukrainian power grid part of the integrated European power grid. We want to do it by the end of 2023. After that, any power flow from Belarus will be impossible,” the minister added. .

“We do not want to damage Lithuania’s energy and environmental security. But to achieve this result we have to cut off the Soviet and Belarusian power grid,” Kuleba summarized.

It should be remembered that the European Union will prepare a new package of sanctions against Lukashenka. Repression continues, persecution of people and representatives of civil society in Belarus, recalled the EU.

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