Cars line up at a gas station in Kyiv. Archive photoMOSCOW, May 10.Ukraine can «significantly increase» the supply of fuel from the US and Europe through Poland, according to the Ukrainian agency UNIAN with reference to the country's Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Sviridenko. — the agency quotes the words from Sviridenko's message. The Ukrainian authorities expect to import oil products from the USA, the Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp region, German, Scandinavian and Baltic refineries through Polish ports. It is noted that they want to deliver fuel by «combined» modes of transport. According to Sviridenko, Kyiv has already received confirmation from the Polish company PERN SA regarding additional capacities. Ukrzaliznytsia and PKP have also synchronized work schedules to increase shipments.Zelensky said that Kyiv handed over the second part of the questionnaire on EU membershipUkrainian online publication «Strana.ua» previously reported on the increase in fuel prices in Ukraine due to the cessation of fuel supplies from Russia and Belarus and the transition to European suppliers. «Strana» cited the words of Dmitry Leushkin, the owner of the Ukrainian network of filling stations Prime, who claimed that Europe remained the only source of fuel supplies for Ukraine. According to him, European fuel must be delivered by road, while previously it was supplied by rail and in much larger volumes. Earlier, Sviridenko said that 70,000 tons of gasoline and about 40,000 tons of diesel fuel from reserves will be sent to the market in order to reduce the shortage fuel in the country. Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine on 24 February. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
