M.Gonchar (a respected #Ukraine#energy & security expert) is also concerned that this #hydrogen payoff is seemingly being promoted by #Siemens (a GER corp notorious for violating sanctions on #Russia) & DTEK (notorious UA electricity monopoly owned by a chameleonic UA oligarch).
Which seems like both a #Russia black op utilizing #Germany govt. & #Siemens (as any number of "#hydrogen hubs" won't mitigate the MILITARY risk of launching #NordStream2 for #Ukraine) and a textbook corrupt abuse of a national security issue for an unpatriotic oligarch's profit.
Michael Gonchar stresses that #Ukraine's (and #Slovakia's) #natgas transit monopolies do NOT see prospective #hydrogen projects with #Germany and other countries as a pay-off for agreeing to #NS2, but rather as a genuine EVENTUAL all-Europe phase-out of #FossilFuels circa 2050.
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IMPORTANT: #Russia military planes repeatedly violated the #BlackSea airspace temporarily closed by #Ukraine for the live-fire anti-air drills held today Sep 24 at a coastal UA test range in Kherson Region, UA Air Force General told UA media.
VIDEO: one of the UA media news stories that quoted the General, by the @ICTV_Fakty
(fragment begins at ~01:50)
General Borys Zenov, the Air Defense Chief of UA Air Force, is seen saying that RU aircraft not only violated the closed airspace but "crossed courses of the target drones which had been fired upon" at the time, thus risking being downed by Ukraine missiles.
IMPORTANT context of the supposedly-imminent further #Russia invasion of #Ukraine: outsiders might assume that recent domestic UA developments are somehow unbearable for #Putin or ruining his Ukraine takeover plans.
They're NOT (analysis🧵👇)
Despite #Ukraine public's steady and overwhelming resentment of #Russia and capitulation to the latter (as shown by polls), Kremlin's chances for a successful "hybrid" (less-bloody) capture of Ukraine (for a short time, of course) aren't completely gone:
1. There's demonstrable, increasingly-overt pro-Kremlin influence in #Ukraine President Zelensky's Office, Prosecutor General's Office, courts etc.
This influence might be rival to the #Putin's relative & traditional envoy Medvedchuk, but it's certainly beneficial for #Russia.