Novak: Russia continues to supply gas in the Donbass
Gazprom continues to deliver Gas from Russia to the site of the South-East of Ukraine in the volume of allegedly 10 million cubic meters per day, said energy Minister Alexander Novak. "The situation has not changed in respect of the month of February, when he began his first of Gazprom's supplies to the site of the South-East of Ukraine. Gas is supplied in the amount of supposedly 10 million cubic meters per day. During this period delivered a little more than five hundred million cubic meters of gas ", - quotes the message of Novak on the air of TV channel "Russia 1", RIA " Novosti ".
"I repeat that the position of "Gazprom" and the Russian Federation, these supplies are under a current contract. It absolutely corresponds to the conditions written in the contract, " he added. April 4, Novak said that in the Donbass already put about 400 million cubic meters of Russian gas deliveries continue. Russia February 19, began supplying gas to the South-East of Ukraine through gas metering station "Prokhorovka" and "Platovo" on the borders of Rostov, Luhansk and Donetsk regions. Kiev stopped gas supplies to the region, citing the damage to the pipelines at the end of hostilities. Payment for these supplies was Another contentious issue in the gas negotiations between Russia and Ukraine. Gazprom announced that gas supplies to South-East of Ukraine in accordance with the contract with Naftogaz, respectively, and pay for them have Ukrainian state. Ukraine refuses to do, pointing to the inability to control both the fact of supply and their volumes.