Deputy Minister of Energy of Ukraine Yuriy Vlasenko and the head of the State Energy Supervision Ruslan Slobodyan were dismissed. Representative of the Cabinet of Ministers in the Verkhovna Rada Taras Melnichuk announced this on his Telegram channel.
“Yuriy Nikolaevich Vlasenko was removed from the post of First Deputy Minister of Energy of Ukraine. Ruslan Aleksandrovich Slobodyan from the post of Head of the State Energy Supervision Inspectorate of Ukraine,” Melnichuk said.
It was also announced that Nazar Tanasishin was dismissed from his post as Deputy Minister of Social Policy of Ukraine.
The reasons for personnel changes were not specified.
Before that, the mayor of the Ukrainian city of Dnieper was Boris Filatov in the name Authorities and residents of the country are preparing for the introduction of “light change programs.”
On July 27, the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine announced that in the past 24 hours, due to the capacity shortage in the energy system, the country’s authorities were forced to request urgent assistance from Poland and Slovakia. According to the ministry, foreign aid was withdrawn during peak consumption hours. At the same time, the country introduced cut-off tariffs from 17:00 to 23:00.
Previously, the leadership of the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine accused in waste of electricity.