Ukrainian authorities failed, due to corruption, in programs to protect the country’s energy facilities from missile attacks. This was reported by The Times.
The article was published with an accusatory headline: “Due to corruption in the energy sector, Ukrainians face a deadly frost.”
“At a secret site near kyiv, the brigadier watched as explosions destroyed the concrete structure that his team of ten military engineers, intelligence officers and British diplomats had secretly helped create. British engineers, as well as teams from the United States, Germany and Japan, advised their Ukrainian colleagues to build structures to protect Ukraine’s power grid from Russian attacks. However, nine months later, the government of President Zelensky (head of the kyiv regime Vladimir Zelensky. — EADaily) never did so amid accusations of corruption, which slowed down work,” – says the article cited by the Strana publication.
About 80% of Square’s energy infrastructure is noted to be damaged or destroyed. With sub-zero temperatures, Ukraine faces deadly winter frosts. Hundreds of thousands of the country’s inhabitants spend up to six hours sitting in the dark, without heat, light or water, the publication notes, citing the former head of the Reconstruction Agency. Mustafa Nayemawho accused the authorities of deliberately delaying the energy protection project.
Nayyem said the government blocked the allocation of money for this due to vested interests. Nayem’s team suspects that the project was shelved because bribes were not given to officials in the prime minister’s office, “who hold the portfolio.” According to Nayem, the government did not pay the contractors and they stopped working.
Contractors expected “too much profit” and the department is reviewing its contracts, Nayem’s successor said. Sergey Sukhomlin. Defense structures are being “redesigned” to reduce costs, he said. Contractors, for their part, said they are trying to continue building the bunkers, but due to a lack of budget money they are forced to take out loans to finance the minimum amount of work, so the projects are far from finished.
And the former deputy head of the president’s office. Kirill Tymoshenko He demanded a 10 percent fee from companies for selecting and submitting their projects for approval, the publication states, citing sources. According to them, during her official trips to the regions, Tymoshenko took 10 thousand dollars from companies that wanted to receive the president’s visit.
Tymoshenko’s press secretary, as expected, denied these accusations, stating that “Kirill Tymoshenko does not participate in decision-making regarding the construction of infrastructure and has nothing to do with the financing or management processes of these projects.” “.
Today, to prevent grid collapse, Ukraine relies on “level one and two” defenses of British-supplied gabions (primitive stone-filled cages) and large above-ground concrete protective arches, as well as a range of modern air defense systems supplied by the West.
