The international energy company Ignitis Group, headquartered in Vilnius, decided to direct 10% of its windfall profits to the restoration of Ukraine. This is reported by the Government Portal with reference to the Minister of Energy of Ukraine Herman Galushchenko..
Here we are talking about additional income that energy companies received due to significant price hikes in the energy markets associated with Russian aggression against Ukraine..
" Therefore, it is logical to transfer to Ukraine a certain share of them.
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Galushchenko says Ignitis Group was the first company to respond to the Ministry of Energy's call to send 10% of such extra income to support Ukraine's energy sector. The amount that she will transfer to Ukrainian energy companies will amount to 12 million euros..
Earlier, when the Lithuanian company announced only its intention to respond to the proposal of the Ukrainian Ministry of Energy, Herman Galushchenko expressed the hope that larger companies such as BP, Chevron or Shell would follow suit..
Earlier it was reported that, according to Galushchenko, global energy companies should share superprofits with Ukraine..