Kiev said about the negotiations with the EC on the bailout for gas injection into UGS
Ukraine conducts dialogues with the European Commission on the issue of allocation of payment for pumping a desired volume of gas into storage under, said the head of Ministry of Ukraine Volodymyr demchyshyn.
"About the payment, there is already underway a speech about the fact that the European Commission has supported us in search of payment, which ought to supply the required amount of reserves at the beginning of the heating season," said Demchyshyn, quoted by RIA " Novosti ". The Minister added that the dialogue with Russia on a new gas package is actively maintained, " there is a certain consensus about the discount." On Thursday, the press service of the European Commission reported that the European Union States will help Ukraine with loans for the purchase of gas from Russia in the winter. Prior to this, the Minister of energy of Russia Alexander Novak said that the draft tripartite Protocol on Russian gas supplies to Ukraine provides for the volumes of gas in Ukrainian underground gas storages (UGS) in early winter in a volume of Over 19 billion cubic meters. As reported by Novak, the obligations of the Ukrainian side for the purchase and injection of gas into storage under the ground and the allocation of the EU bailout for these purposes are required to enter into a new package of gas agreements that can be signed on the results of the upcoming meeting of the Russia-Ukraine-European Commission.