“Financial genocide of power generating companies” threatens Ukraine with electricity brownouts as early as this month and blackouts next year, Timchenko said at a press conference. In the last 18 months, power companies have suffered almost $2 billion in financial losses due to unpaid renewable energy bills, a market liberalization law that created “profiteering” and musical chairs at the Energy Ministry. Five ministers in 18 months have meant constantly changing policies and a “lack of professionalism,” he said. “Strategy is changed by every single minister, by every decision of the Rada, by every decision of the regulator. It results in chaos.”