Putin ordered to once again help the Ukrainian Genichesku gas
Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered to help again with gas supplies to the Ukrainian city of Genichesk, where the situation is close to a humanitarian catastrophe, reports RIA News.
“We need help,” he said, responding to the relevant request of the head of Crimea Sergey Aksyonov. “Do all the same” (as was the case last year - ed.).
At the same time, the president noted that “it is necessary, of course, to establish financial discipline in relations with neighbors.”
Putin asked Aksenov that the company Chernomorneftegaz is completing the connection to gas mains. “So sure,” the head of the Crimea answered him.
After a meeting of the State Council Presidium, Aksenov approached the president and reported to him that the residents of Genichesk and the Genichesky District had again asked Russia for natural gas supplies.
“The situation there is close to a humanitarian catastrophe, the situation of the past year is aggravated, when people were left without heat,” he noted. Aksenov recalled that last year, on the instructions of Putin, the freezing city was supplied with gas and heat.
"Today, the situation is the same critical. During the deliveries of last year, 18 debts in millions of rubles were generated, the debts have not yet been repaid," said Aksenov. "But since the situation is critical there, we ask your permission to ensure such deliveries."
In January of this year, the authorities of Genichesk of the Kherson region in the south of Ukraine appealed to the Russian side for gas supplies in connection with the cold weather. Putin, having considered this appeal and, proceeding from humanitarian considerations, ordered to work out the issue of the possibility of gas supplies to help the residents of Genichesk survive the extreme cold, the presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov reported.
The order of the head of state was fulfilled, gas came from the territory of Crimea to Genichesky district.
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