KIEV, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) -- Ukraine purchased about 397 million U.S. dollars worth of nuclear fuel in 2019, which is 24.1 percent less than the previous year, Interfax Ukraine reported on Thursday.
According to the data from the State Statistics Service, last year Ukraine purchased nearly 241 million U.S. dollars worth of Russian-made fuel and 156 million U.S. dollars worth of fuel from Sweden. Thus, Russia accounted for 60.7 percent of Ukraine's total nuclear imports, while Sweden for 39.3 percent.
As reported earlier, Ukraine bought nuclear fuel for worth 523 million U.S. dollars in 2018.
Ukraine, which relied on Russia for more than 90 percent of its nuclear fuel imports in 2013, has gradually reduced the purchase since the political dispute between Kiev and Moscow in 2014.
As nuclear energy accounts for over half of power generation in the country, Ukraine heavily depends on nuclear fuel for its four nuclear power plants. Enditem
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