Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk said on the air of TV channels that the accounts of Ukraine have 3, $ 1 billion that can be applied in the form of gas payments, informs.
" we currently accounts 3, $ 1 billion that can be used to pay for natural gas - whether for the previous supply, or for future delivery as agree, " said the head of government.
Yatseniuk also said that the gas issue is still unresolved is the need to generate and sign a temporary contract for gas supply and terms of payment. According to the Prime Minister, the time value for the gas must depend on a season - $325 per thousand cubic meters in the summer and $385 per thousand cubic meters in the winter.
" Summer is the cost falls, the winter, the cost increases. On this winter - 385 USD per thousand Cubic meters - UNIAN). This is somehow better than five hundred, which we had under the agreement ", - said the Prime Minister.
in the previous tripartite Ministerial talks on September 26, Russia, Ukraine and the EU discussed the " winter plan ", designed for the period until the end of March. He foresaw that Kyiv this year will repay 3, $ 1 billion debt for gas from Russia, and Gazprom will supply Ukraine 5 billion cubic meters of gas At the prepayment price 385 dollars per thousand cubic meters. Russia insisted that $ 2 billion of debt was repaid already before delivery.
later, the Russian Federation reduced the requirement for the first tranche debt for gas to 1, 451 billion (the rest of 3, $ 1 billion - before the new year), and Ukraine said that will survive the winter and 4 billion cubic meters of additional gas from Russia. In addition, Kyiv wants to begin to repay the debt only after the resumption of gas supplies and to stretch the payment 3, $ 1 billion to March inclusive.
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