The social problems faced by the victims have been widely featured over the past weeks. They are entitled to benefits which the state has never been able to afford to pay in full. The anti-government paper Silski Visti contrasted the elaborate closure ceremony with the poverty of most Ukrainians. Ukraina Moloda echoed this sentiment. The state's image in return for a load of social and energy problems.
Many people are worried about the closure's impact on Ukraine's already precarious energy situation.
A poll on Ukraine's most popular TV channel produced 7,000 viewers who thought the station should have been kept open as against just over 2,000 who supported closing it down. BBC Monitoring , based in Caversham in southern England, selects and translates information from radio, television, press, news agencies and the Internet from 150 countries in more than 70 languages.