Is
the New Deal Russian Coal for Ukraine Really the Donbass Coal!?
27
December, 2014
I
love to read comments of those who always complain of Putin
abandoning the Donbass whenever I don’t have the time to write.
Folks are getting upset once again and are “logically” advancing
various insane ideas.
One
of them is the supposedly “free” coal that Ukraine is receiving
from Russia. On the Donbass this is no secret to anyone (and I’m
writing this for the benefit of couch warriors who can only beat
their fingers against the keyboard and think this makes them the
smartest in the world.”
So.
The coal that is being supplied (and has been supplied all December)
is Donbass coal. Naturally Russia has nothing to do with it. Indeed,
strictly speaking it is Russian coal. And money? Money goes where the
coal comes from. To the Donbass. This is the money that is being
used to pay salaries and benefits to the miners.
And
you, coach warriors, you didn’t know any of that? That’s why you
are couch warriors, it is not for you to understand or even wish to
understand. You only know how to watch guts hanging from power lines
on TV, knowing you will never end up like that. This is also part of
the Minsk Agreement (incidentally, Kiev officialdom continues to make
money on this deal). True, so far the coal is being delivered in
small amounts, because Kiev is having second thoughts (though one
would think it would have gotten to it by now). But time is working
against the junta. Therefore second thoughts will now be very costly.
Therefore
Kiev has been sending money to the Donbass for a long time now, and
its strategy of economic strangulation has suffered a compete defeat
(you may have noticed how that theme has vanished from Ukrainian TV
channels). Kiev is maintaining an embarrassed silence concerning how
the Lugansk and Donetsk Republics have Ukrainian currency in such
amounts (at first they claimed it was counterfeit money, but even the
Ukrainian public could not be fooled for long), while in Russia
fair-weather-patriots are mourning the news, rather than celebrate
the junta’s latest defeat.
PS.
Concerning electricity being sent to Ukraine, I thought this was long
understood. But apparently not. Crimea is still (and will be for a
long time) connected to Ukraine’s power grid, which means that
Russia has to somehow compensate for Crimea’s use of electricity. I
think they had reached an agreement on that a long time ago, but it
doesn’t hurt to repeat. They decided to use the repairs on the 2nd
reactor of the Southern Ukrainian nuclear power station (just as the
repairs on the 3rd reactor of the Zaporozhye nuclear power station
are used to explain the rolling blackouts). The rest you already
know.
Translated
from Russian by J. Hawk for FortRuss.blogspot.com
Russia
Saves Ukraine From Freezing and Dark Winter
27
December, 2014
With
the goal of providing real help to the Ukrainian people, there will
be deliveries of coal and electricity to Ukraine without prepayment,
as an act of goodwill of Russian President Vladimir Putin, TASS was
informed by Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov. This confirms
reports coming from Ukraine about the beginning of such deliveries.
The
news agency TASS quoted Peskov: “President Putin, in spite of
everything, as he has repeatedly said, has never turned away from his
consistent line on supporting the people of Ukraine or providing, not
eventual, but real help in difficult times. In fact, Putin, taking
into account the critical situation with energy supply, made this
decision yesterday to start these deliveries despite the absence of
advance payment, which is the usual precondition.”
“This
stands as a consistent demonstration of the political intent of Putin
about real assistance to the Ukrainians, particularly on the eve of
the New Year,” - said the press secretary.
Earlier,
Vice-Premier Dmitri Kozak reported about this decision on channel
“Russia-24.”
“We
are going to supply 500,000 tons of coal from Russia, and possibly,
if there will be an additional apt agreement, a additional 500,000
tons, i.e. we are ready to supply one million tons of coal a month to
solve the energy problems that have arisen in the country." -
said Kozak.
[That
have arisen since Kiev refuses to buy coal from secessionist Donbass,
which was Ukraine’s principal source of coal —tr]
According
to the vice-premier, the decision about the deliveries of Russian
coal was taken at the request of the Ukrainian leadership. Energy
will be supplied on preferential terms, in fact, at domestic Russian
prices.
Kozak
further expressed the hope that these deliveries will resolve
energy-related problems in Crimea.
Today
a report about the delivery of Russian coal appeared on the website
of the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine, but was later removed with the
explanation that the site had been hacked by unknown persons. It was
noted that the “Press Service of the Ministry has not published any
such information on its own behalf or on behalf of any other persons
or press services.”
Nevertheless,
on the site of the Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, a text still
appears saying that Ukraine has begun receiving coal and electricity
from abroad, which will ensure the functioning of the power plants
and the energy system. The site does not specify, however, where
these supplies are coming from.
Translated
from Russian by Tom Winter for FortRuss.blogspot.com
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