Yatsenyuk: the sum of claims of "Naftogaz" to "Gazprom" has exceeded $16 billion
The amount of the claims of "Naftogaz" to " Gazprom ", which discusses arbitration in Stockholm, exceeded 16 billion dollars, Russia Ukraine needs $ 10 billion in compensation, said Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk.
NJSC "Naftogaz of Ukraine" was submitted to the Stockholm arbitration court the claim about indemnification and introducing changes in the transit contract with Gazprom." "for six months after the first recourse to arbitration by the transit contract leading international experts and lawyers have done a great job to clearly prove that the transit agreement is unfair to Ukraine, and more than 10 billion dollars must be paid to Naftogaz-Gazprom in the form of compensation of losses ", - Yatsenyuk wrote on his page in Facebook.
"The total Amount of our claims to Gazprom under the contract for the purchase of gas and the agreement on transit has already exceeded 16 billion dollars," he wrote.
"Gazprom" and "Naftogaz" in June 2014, the reciprocal lawsuits in the Stockholm arbitration: Gazprom asked in a persistent form to recover from Ukrainian organizations debts and interest totalling $ 4, 5 billion dollars, "Naftogaz" - retroactively revise the price of gas and recover all overpayments, estimated to be at least $ 6 billion. These cases were consolidated. The arbitration decision under the contract for production and delivery of gas is expected in summer 2016, according to the transit agreement in the fall of 2016.
A new twist on that old theme was designated on February 19." Naftogaz of Ukraine "has stopped gas supplies in the Donbass, explaining that "critical damage" pipelines." Gazprom has taken the Decision problem, using canned gas metering station - and in just a couple of hours, the Ukrainian side said suddenly animated the pipe and resumed gas supply to the region.
on a subsequent day of the event continued to evolve, but the situation does not become clearer. So, Naftogaz says that resumed gas supply in the region. Commissioners of Donbass gas comes specifically from Gazprom via the southern border with the Russian Federation (GIS "Platovo" and "Prokhorovka" )." Gazprom argues that the flow of gas through Platovo " and "Prokhorovka" agreed with the Ukrainian side. Read more in the article ""