Ukraine has accumulated in the underground storage of up to 17 billion cubic meters of gas, enough to not freeze, but not enough to pass the winter, said Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk during the meeting of Yalta European strategy on the first day of the weekend.
" in our underground storage of up to 17 billion cubic meters of natural gas. It is not enough to live well the winter, but enough to not freeze, " said Yatsenyuk.
After long and fruitless negotiations Gazprom on June 16, translated " Naftogaz " to advance, and now in the Ukrainian gas transport system are only transit volumes destined for Europe. As long as the transit is carried out in contractual settings, however, and Gazprom, and the Commission did not rule out any issues in the winter, when Ukraine will spend accumulated in its own storage resources.
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.
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