The head of "Gazprom" Aleksey Miller has announced that Ukraine took 550 million cubic meters of Russian gas meant for European consumers.
In Turkey Miller has discussed the issues of Russian gas supplies to Italy, Greece and Israel through Turkish territory. Moreover, he also has examined the project Samsun-Jaikhan of Russian oil supplies to world markets.
Ukrainian Ministry of fuel and energy requested enterprises to cut down gas consumption by 11 millions cubic meters per day. Economy has affected not only enterprises: gas supplies of ordinary consumers should be cut down by 15% on January 24.
Nevertheless, an Ukrainian limit of gas consumption has been exceeded by results of January. Cold winter became the cause of increased gas consumption in Ukraine.
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