Ukraine needs to disconnect from the energy system of Belarus and Russia and to join the European electricity market

Ukraine needs to disconnect from the energy system of Belarus and Russia and to join the European electricity market, through the European Network of Transmission System Operators, or ENTSO-E, two government ministers said recently. “We urgently need to disconnect from the unified energy system with Belarus and Russia, and connect to the European system,” acting Energy Minister Yuriy Vitrenko, said Friday on Savik Shuster’s Freedom of Speech program. Vitrenko, who faces a confirmation vote in the Rada today, added: “This will be one of my main tasks. So that we are private, in Europe, a normal market where there is no monopoly arbitrariness, and where there is a normal transparent price.”