Russian War Against Ukraine: Energy Dimension (daily updating DiXi Group alert)
February 28
Summary
— Western-made dual-use components continue to reach Russia – joint report by the International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) and the Independent Anti-Corruption Commission (NAKO). E.g., the Russian Kalibr cruise missile includes components produced by 11 foreign companies, including 9 American ones, as well as Swiss and Taiwanese ones.
— About 600 Russian soldiers were deployed at the bomb shelter of Zaporizhzhia Non-Standard Equipment Plant, located 3 kilometers away from the Zaporizhzhia NPP site. The occupiers continue to turn the ZNPP into a military base, deploying and repairing heavy armored vehicles at the site – so the President of Energoatom Petro Kotin.
— In the Odesa region, Ukrenergo managed to eliminate the accident and reconnect all critical infrastructure, with the gradual reconnection of households ongoing. The local DSO specialists fully restored power supply to residents of the areas which were offline.
— In the Kharkiv and Sumy regions, damage of distribution systems and outages in populated areas were reported as a result of shelling.
— Ukrzaliznytsia announced it signed a contract for the supply of natural gas from Ukrnafta, at a price 23% lower than the current one offered by traders at an open and competitive tender. Other details of the contract were not reported.
— The President Volodymyr Zelenskyi called for the start of EU accession negotiations. By the end of 2023, the Ukrainian government will fulfill all additional recommendations of the European Commission to start negotiations , as the Deputy Prime Minister Olha Stefanishyna said.
— The Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal and the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen discussed, inter alia, the financial and sanctions impact on the Russian budget, including personal sanctions on Russian officials and restrictions on the Russian nuclear industry. Meanwhile, Ukraine received the first tranche (1.25 billion USD) of the recently announced U.S. aid package.
— The UN General Assembly is expected to consider the issue of a special tribunal on Russia’s crimes against Ukraine at the end of March – so the Deputy Head of the Presidential Office Andrii Smyrnov.
