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Ukraine is preparing to increase electricity exports to the EU to help Europe "resist energy pressure" from Russia, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said

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"We will gradually make Ukraine one of the guarantors of European energy security, thanks to our domestic electricity production," he said in his daily video address.

"Despite the war, we ensured the integration between the Ukrainian and European networks in record time," the president added.

His statement came a day after EU member states reached an agreement to cut gas consumption to help Germany after a drastic cut in Russian supplies of the blue fuel.

Kyiv and the Europeans accuse Moscow of using gas as an economic and political weapon.

Before the Russian invasion, Ukraine met 50 percent of its energy needs with nuclear power, DPA noted.

The country also imported electricity from Belarus and Russia.

Russian troops recently seized Ukraine's largest nuclear power plant in Energodar, a hydroelectric plant on the Dnieper River and at least two coal-fired power plants, BTA adds.

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