KYIV. UkraineGate . 23 . December .2022 | War News .
The newly created JSC Ukrainian Distribution Networks (URM), which will manage state-owned and nationalized regional power distribution companies in Russians, can be headed by a man of the Russian oligarch Konstantin Grigorishin. This is stated in the material of the publication Delo.ua.
To recap, the Cabinet of Ministers created the URM on November 29, 2022. The company reports to the Ministry of Energy and will become the only operator of state-owned and nationalized regional power distribution companies. Khmelnytskoblenergo and Mykolaivoblenergo have already been transferred to the management of URM. The next step is the state-owned Kharkivoblenergo, Ternopiloblenergo, Zaporizhiaoblenergo, as well as regional power distribution companies owned by Russian owners — VS Energy, Energy Standard Group, Konstantin Grigorishin’s energy assets.
“If a major de-Russification of the energy sector does occur, URM will concentrate up to 60% of the market and will have a huge impact – it will be responsible for the work of regional power distribution companies, management appointments, stabilization shutdowns, repairs, purchases, etc.,” the article says.
According to the Delo.ua, the state monopolist of the URM can be headed by Mikhail Ilnitsky, the current director of Chernihivoblenergo, which belongs to the Russian Grigorishin. “Instead of depriving him (Grigorishin — ed.) impact on the energy market, the Office of the President seems to be ramping it up. After all, the manager of this very Grigorishin, Ilnitsky, will be in charge of state and nationalized regional power distribution companies in Russians, and Konstantin Grigorishin himself,” the publication writes.
It is unlikely that this potential appointment is accidental. After all, the functioning of the URM is directly supervised by top officials — Deputy Head of the Presidential Office Rostyslav Shurma and Minister of Energy Herman Halushchenko, who is called one of the key “executors of Bankova’s policy on the transfer of the power system to manual control”.
At the same time, both Shurma and Halushchenko have indirect ties with the terrorist country. Shurma is a former member of the Party of Regions, in 2019 he ran for the Verkhovna Rada on the list of the pro-Russian Opposition Bloc, and now oversees energy, industry and subsoil. Halushchenko is associated with the sanctioned FSB agent Andriy Derkach.
“Therefore, the anti-Russian energy initiatives of the authorities have a beautiful façade, but it stands on loose ground. A well-conceived project can turn into an increase in the impact on the energy market of hostile elements that are definitely not interested in its preservation and efficiency,”Delo.ua writes.
Source : Ukrgate
