Ukraine expects independence from Russian gas in 5 years
The Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk promised that after 5 years Ukraine will no longer be dependent on gas from Russia.
in an interview Ukrainian aired on Sunday, he said that Ukraine has in stock about 16 billion cubic meters of gas. According to him, has greatly increased purchases of gas to the EU through Poland, Hungary and Slovakia, and due to this decreased purchases from Russia. As the Prime Minister reminded that Ukraine has recently launched a reverse gas through Slovakia - 10 billion cubic meters of gas per year.
" Before the victory is still not close. Victory is when we will not generally purchase natural gas from Russia. This is not a year, not two, but five-year term, we can say that Ukraine is diversifying gas supplies and will not have to depend on Russia ", - said Yatsenyuk, excerpts from his interview are on.
According to the Ukrainian Prime Minister, Ukraine lacks five billion cubic meters of gas for the winter.
" It will be difficult. Heat will not immediately notice, but will not be ", - he added.
according to the received information of the Russian side, for normal autumn-winter period and ensure stable transit Ukraine ought to have in their own UGS approximately 18, 5 billion cubic meters of gas.
Moscow and Kiev Until now not have the opportunity to agree on the price of Russian gas for Ukraine. The Russian Federation proposes to establish a temporary price 385 dollars per thousand cubic meters for the period of consideration of the mutual claims of " Gazprom " and " Naftogaz ". With his own hand, the Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk on Wednesday introduced the initiative two options rates: summer $ 300 per thousand cubic meters in the winter - $ 380