Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk said that Ukraine in ten years will achieve energy independence from Russia.
"For Ukraine, there is a goal we will achieve. In ten years Ukraine will be completely energy independent state. For this purpose the government has submitted to Parliament a new law on rent. Not the populist law which my political opponents offer to take. But the law, which provides: one who produces, one who drills the fresh sources, the one who increases the production of natural gas, receives respectively low rent and he gets in fact additional incentives For investments in gas sector, "the Prime Minister said in the interview the TV program "Prime Time" on the Ukrainian TV channel.
"earlier we were dependent on gas from Russia Almost 100% imported. Today Russia's share dropped to 30 %, " - said Yatsenyuk.
Kiev is seeking to diversify gas imports to Ukraine. To this end, the government will reduce gas supplies from Russia by increasing imports of reverse gas from the EU.
in winter gas package, which Ukraine, Russia and the European Commission initialled on 25 September, agreed the purchase of "Naftogaz" from "Gazprom" on gas credit five hundred million dollars, raised through the EC. The Government of the Russian Federation provided Ukraine a discount for the fourth quarter of approximately $ 20 per thousand cubic meters. Itself the contract value is 248-252 dollars per thousand cubic meters, said the head of the Ministry of energy of Russia Alexander Novak.
in January-June 2015 Ukraine purchased 3, 7 billion cubic meters of gas from Russia. In July, August and September, Naftogaz bought gas from Russia. The Ukrainian side was Not satisfied with the price, With the discount of $ 40 had to be 247, 17 dollars per thousand cubic meters. During this period, Ukraine was the cost of gas purchased on the reverse.
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