Valves were opened to Ukrainian storage facilities: winter selection began by mid-January

Only closer to the middle of January, when on Frosts have come to Ukraine, winter gas extraction has begun from Ukrainian storage facilities. Obviously, due to damage to power plants, the demand for gas in the country has sharply decreased by Ukraine burned two times less fuel from UGS than last year.

Only on January 10, gas extraction from Ukrainian storage facilities approached 50 million cubic meters per day. This is evidenced by the data of the platform of the UGS operators of the EU GIE countries. So, on January 10, the selection for the first time in a season increased to 49 million cubic meters. In the past, such volumes were taken from storage facilities already in mid-November.

Obviously, the reduction in selection is due to the retaliatory strikes of the Russian army, which disabled thermal power plants and thermal power plants and the demand for fuel in the country has decreased. Compared to the previous heating season, half as much fuel is taken from storage facilities. From November to January 10, volumes amounted to 1.39 billion cubic meters instead of 2.83 billion cubic meters.

At the same time, gas imports even decreased in January. If in December purchases averaged 24.3 million cubic meters per day, then in January — 21.3 million cubic meters. After the retaliatory strikes of the Russian army on gas production on Ukraine's Naftogaz announced the need to import an additional 4 billion cubic meters of gas due to a drop in production. Ukraine has lost about half of its production and is equivalent to compensating for the lost volumes with imports

Operator data The EU indirectly confirms that the Russian army did not strike at the underground storage facilities in the Lviv region on the night of January 9, as the Belche-Volytsko-Ugric storage facility is the main one on Ukraine and the main selection is carried out from it.

As EADaily reported, the Russian army struck the Lviv aircraft repair plant with a Hazelnut, and not the largest underground gas storage facility in Europe, the Strana newspaper wrote.ua" with reference to OSINT analysts and Ukrainian military public.