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Japan will consider possibility of increasing and accelerating supply of necessary energy equipment to Ukraine

Japan will consider possibility of increasing and accelerating supply of necessary energy equipment to Ukraine

The Japanese government will consider the possibility of increasing and accelerating the supply of necessary energy equipment to Ukraine.

This was announced by the press service of the Ministry of Energy, Ukrainian News Agency reports.

It is noted that the Minister of Energy Herman Halushchenko met with the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Japan to Ukraine Matsuda Kuninori to discuss urgent issues of energy security and priority areas of partnership assistance against the background of increased enemy shelling of civilian energy infrastructure.

Halushchenko informed the Ambassador of Japan about the operational situation in the energy system after one of russia's largest combined attacks on the Ukrainian energy industry and about the urgent needs of Ukraine for the protection and restoration of energy system facilities destroyed by russia.

The Japanese Ambassador expressed his sincere condolences to the people of Ukraine in connection with the devastating attacks by the terrorist state and strongly condemned the barbaric attacks on nuclear and all other types of energy facilities.

The Ambassador emphasized that Japan will do everything possible to provide Ukrainians with all the critical equipment needed to get through the next heating season and noted that the Japanese government will consider the possibility of increasing and speeding up the supply of necessary equipment to Ukraine.

As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, as of the morning of Friday, August 30, 518 settlements were completely or partially cut off due to hostilities and other reasons.