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Ukraine has completely stopped electricity supplies to the areas of Donetsk region, temporarily occupied by Russian terrorist forces, as reported by Vsevolod Kovalchuk, CEO of the country’s united energy grid Ukrenergo.
"From 00:00 on July 26, 2017, the flow of electricity into temporarily uncontrolled areas of Donetsk region was halted. ORDLO (militant-occupied areas) as of today do not consume electricity produced by power plants in the government-controlled part of Ukraine," Kovalchuk wrote on Facebook.
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Kovalchuk also noted that the lines used by Russia to supply electricity to the occupied areas of Donetsk region have been excluded from the list of interstate lines, and power flows along those lines are not accounted for in the general system of power flows between Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus.
As UNIAN reported earlier, on July 25, Ukraine halted power supplies to the occupied parts of Luhansk region, citing debts for power already supplied.
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As of April 1, the debts for the energy supplied from the Ukraine-controlled territory amounted to UAH 2.985 billion. In late June, chairman of the Donetsk Regional Military and Civil Administration Pavlo Zhebrivsky said that the debt of the occupied areas of Donetsk region amounted to UAH 3.9 billion.