KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine, whose power system has been under constant Russian missile and drone attacks, reduced electricity imports by 31% in April after an 11% increase in March thanks to warm weather, Ukrainian ExPro consultancy said on Thursday.
The consultancy said Ukraine imported 187 gigawatt hours in April against 272 GWh in March.
ExPro said most of the electricity – 44% – was supplied from Hungary. Ukraine also imported electricity from Slovakia and Poland.
Ukrainian officials have said the Russian attacks deprived Ukraine of half of its generating capacity, some of which Kyiv has managed to restore.
Ukrainian energy minister German Galushchenko said the European Union increased the maximum volume of power that Ukraine can export to the EU to 650 Megawatt hours from the current 550 Megawatt hours.
“Ukraine currently trades electricity with all its neighbouring European countries – Slovakia, Romania, Hungary, Poland and Moldova. Every spring, exports increase, while imports decrease,” Galushchenko said on Facebook.
Ukraine started large power exports to EU before the Russian invasion in 2022 but then switched it off after Russia damaged Ukrainian power generating facilities.
(Reporting by Pavel Polityuk; Editing by Jan Harvey and David Evans)
