Weekly analytical report December 6 – 12, 2021

Report announcement:

• The unexpected changes in the management bodies of state-owned companies may somewhat delay important reforms, e.g. Ukrenergo’s certification…
• The situation with fuel stocks at Ukrainian thermal and cogeneration plants remains precarious: the available data, albeit limited, has no indication of improvement…
• The current situation with supply of gas resource to the market, in combination with high volumes of exports and consumption by cogeneration plants, indicates the high risk of shortages at the end of the heating season…
• As follows from high-level statements by the U.S. and German leaders, Nord Stream 2 no longer looks like Russia’s leverage of energy influence over Europe but rather the leverage over Russia, used by the West to contain armed aggression against Ukraine…

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