Romania expects to import electricity from Ukraine due to severe drought and state of emergency
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Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Oana Ţoiu announced plans to import electricity from Ukraine due to record drought. Bucharest declared a state of emergency on the energy market and shut down one nuclear reactor.
Romanian Foreign Minister Oana Ţoiu announced that Bucharest expects electricity supplies from Ukraine after declaring a state of emergency in the energy market due to severe drought. She wrote about this on her X social media page following a phone conversation with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha, reports UNN.
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According to Ţoiu, the main topic of the talks was mutual support between neighboring states amid energy challenges. She informed her Ukrainian counterpart about the consequences of the record drought on the Danube for electricity production in Romania and discussed the possibility of support through Ukrainian generation.
Romania today declared a state of emergency in the energy market due to severe drought. Because of these circumstances, we had to preemptively shut down one of the reactors at the Cernavodă Nuclear Power Plant, and during peak load hours we will also rely on electricity production in Ukraine
Discussed security, energy, and the situation in the Black Sea
The head of Romanian diplomacy noted that the conversation continued the work being carried out by the relevant ministries of the two countries, as well as by Romanian Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan and Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal. She recalled that in May, the presidents of the two countries agreed on the construction of a 400 kV power transmission line between Ukraine and Romania.
Today this is another example of how the integration of energy systems benefits the markets of Romania, Ukraine, and the European Union, because energy is a vital element of our economies and directly affects the costs and quality of life of citizens
Also during the conversation, Ţoiu expressed condolences to Ukraine over the latest Russian strikes on Ukrainian cities, which killed civilians, including entire families. The sides discussed the security situation, Ukraine's needs ahead of winter and on the front line, and exchanged assessments of the situation in the Black Sea.
The interlocutors paid special attention to Russian attacks in the region. According to Ţoiu, the discussion covered, in particular, recent violations of Romanian airspace by Russian drones and the downing of three Russian UAVs by the Romanian Air Force last week. She also emphasized that constant attacks on civilian shipping in the Black Sea threaten the safety of maritime transport, the operation of the sea corridor to the ports of Greater Odesa, and the functioning of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium, which supplies oil to Romania.