by Lenta.ru
At the end of January this year, Ukraine for the first time in several years was forced to become an importer of electricity. Kiev stopped energy exports to Belarus and Moldova and began to buy electricity from Russia.

The shortage of energy in Ukraine arose after the fall of the support of the power transmission line in the Zaporozhye region. The collapse of the support occurred due to the fact that the metallurgy collectors filed parts of the structure. As a result of the incident, the Zaporozhye nuclear plant was forced to stop one of the six power units and reduced production.