Ukraine is looking for Soviet-era power plants in Eastern Europe to replace equipment - Shmyhal

Ukraine, together with its partners, is working to find Soviet-type power plants and power stations in Eastern European countries. This refers to the possibility of obtaining equipment for replacement at Ukrainian facilities. This was announced by the Minister of Energy of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal during a meeting of the Verkhovna Rada, UNN reports.

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We continue to work with our partners to find old, Soviet-type power plants and power stations in Eastern Europe. We are finding such facilities. Together with engineers and energy specialists from relevant Ukrainian companies

The Minister of Energy also reported that the assessment and inventory of the found facilities is currently underway.

We are conducting an assessment, inventory, analysis, and taking entire blocks of certain equipment that allows us to make replacements. Of course, I cannot publicly name specifics now, but we have a number of such facilities that are currently being processed, a delegation literally last week completed several visits to several Eastern European countries with which we will implement this plan

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