Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk has shifted responsibility for problems with connections to DTEK power grids to Minister of Energy and Coal Industry of Ukraine Volodymyr Demchyshyn, as well as the National Commission for Energy, Housing and Utilities Services Regulation (NCER).

"You ask me about energy. And haven't you tried to call your minister from the Bloc of Petro Poroshenko and talk to him?" he said, when reporting to the parliament.

The premier added that only three representatives of his political force are in the government.

"I'll tell you that there is the scope of responsibility of the government, and there is that of other authorities. Dear Mr. Deputy, do you know ... that in accordance with the law on the NCER the function of determining the rules and procedures of connection to power grids is exclusively in the competence of the commission," he concluded.