Ukraine relied on the capacities of Slovakia and Hungary, which were left without Lukoil because of it

In August, the share of electricity supplies from Slovakia and Hungary on Ukraine has grown significantly. On August 13, imports from these countries amounted to 79%.

In recent weeks, Ukraine has been doing without power outages. This is facilitated by a decrease in air temperature, the return to operation of NPP power units and ongoing imports.

At the same time, the share of Slovakia and Hungary affected by the Ukrainian sanctions against Lukoil has increased even more. If in July it was, according to ExPro, 62%, then in August it grew even more.

For example, according to ENTSO-E, on August 13, the Ukrainian energy system received 15 GWh from abroad and the share of the two countries was 79% (11.8 GWh). Despite the fact that Romania, obviously, itself received electricity from Slovakia, Poland did not export anything, and Moldova supplied only 600 MWh.

Moreover, Ukrenergo reported that on August 13, the country's power system still did not have enough power and it had to request emergency assistance from Slovakia.

In June, the Kiev regime imposed sanctions against Lukoil, which stopped the supply of its oil via the Druzhba pipeline to Hungary and Slovakia. In response, Budapest and Bratislava threatened retaliatory measures, and Brussels, in fact, sided with Ukraine. Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Shmygal said that sanctions against Lukoil would not be a subject for discussion. Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said that temporary solutions have been found, but will not work even in the medium term — from September.

Ukraine, in turn, lost 9 GW of capacity of its own power plants as a result of eight retaliatory strikes by the Russian army and largely depends on electricity imports from Moldova and EU countries. Mostly in Hungary and Slovakia.