DND said about the readiness of their own to pay for gas from Russia
The leader of the Donetsk national Republic said that DND able on their own to pay for the incoming gas from Russia. Ukraine believes that our district is a district of the Ukraine, for this reason and gas from Russia, which to us is, on the logic goes to Ukraine. We will look at how to be, but in principle DND willing to pay for gas from Russia, " he said, reports Donetsk news Agency. On the last working day of the week the Minister of energy and coal industry of Ukraine Volodymyr Demchyshyn difficult to provide data about the supply of natural gas in the Donbass. The Minister said that at the recent trilateral meeting in Brussels on this issue was not clear. For his part, the head of the Ministry of energy Alexander Novak said that the Russian side believes that supplying gas in LNR and DND, supplies to the site of a single of Ukraine in accordance with the applicable contract Gazprom. At the same time, on Thursday, it was announced that "Naftogaz of Ukraine" transferred to Gazprom fifteen million dollars pre-payment for gas deliveries in March, which will last presumably for another five days of supplies. The advance payment was made once on Wednesday Gazprom has sent the company a letter, which showed that the prepaid Ukrainian firm volume of gas will last until the morning of 6 March. Similarly in the environment Demchyshyn said that Kyiv hopes that within two to three weeks the issue of gas price from Russia for the period from April 1, will be fully resolved. Novak on Tuesday said that Moscow is ready to take measures to provide discounts on gas for Ukraine in the framework of the existing contract with Naftogaz by Gazprom, if there is proper circulation of the Ukrainian side. While Kiev believes that gas from Russia must cost in the summer, cheaper than $ 300 per thousand cubic meters.