The next heating season will either follow the new rules or become the first catastrophe under independence. This is stated in the article by economist Nikolai Tesli "

“Every year in July, meetings begin in the President’s office on how to get through the heating season.. Even before the war, the task was not an easy one - you need not to lose your ratings, convince the IMF and the Europeans that “reforms are underway”, and not strongly violate the usual and comfortable rules that have been feeding both the oligarchs and the local elites for years,” the article says..

According to the author, this year there is no question of providing humanitarian assistance to financial and industrial groups, because the oligarchs have not only lost their tools of influence, the teams of Dmitry Firtash and Rinat Akhmetov are desperately trying to save at least something.

“The president’s problem is different: where to get the funds necessary to fulfill the promises? "

“It will really be the most difficult winter in all the years of independence. But! Everything is fine. We must go through it so that our people feel the normal work of the state,” Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in June.

And already at the end of July it turned out that there was no money for this "

According to the expert, successful managers of NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine could only find money for Bentley. They weren’t enough for gas reserves, despite statements about the “profitability” of 2021.

“There is no money either to provide a reserve of 15 billion cubic meters, “sufficient” from the point of view of Yuriy Vitrenko, or to pump in 19 billion, as required by the government.

Such a striking difference in estimates of the need for reserves is a consequence of the war, because no one knows for sure how much gas we will need, given the decline in production (in particular in the chemical industry),” the author notes..

Therefore, the following situation has developed - Naftogaz names the minimum volume, and the government demands the maximum, in order to also protect itself from possible interruptions in coal and have a reserve for generating electricity.

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Recall, earlier Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmihal told how Ukraine is preparing for a difficult winter.