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The government must take responsibility and appoint full-fledged heads of the strategic state energy companies ahead of the heating season.
In his Independence Day post, the deputy chair of the committee of the Verkhovna Rada noted that ahead of the heating season the state must more actively perform its functions as the owner of strategic energy companies, and the government must take direct responsibility for their operation. "Maybe it's time for the state, as a shareholder, to start managing its state-owned companies, and for the government to take responsibility," he wrote on Facebook on Sunday. According to the deputy, on the eve of the winter, which authorities call one of the most difficult, the key enterprises of the energy sector are still led only by acting heads. Among them he named the largest electricity producer Energoatom, the company responsible for gas supply to the population Naftogaz, the main state heat-generation company Centrenergo, state regional power distribution companies in five regions, three of which are frontline, and the nationalized oil refinery Ukrtatnafta. Kucherenco emphasized that the state must stop shifting responsibility onto supervisory boards and referring to them "when it needs to hide its own indecision." "The pillars of the country's energy security cannot be without leaders at such a time," he said. The deputy is convinced that the responsibility for getting through the heating season must be borne directly by the government and the prime minister personally.
As previously reported, former prime minister Yuliia Svyrydenko is being considered as a candidate for the position of head of Naftogaz.
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