The Russian side when obgovarivaya with Ukraine gas supplies in the Donbass resorted to arguments about the fact that Kiev is not paying for the supply of fuel to the region, the de facto recognizes their samoprovozglashennost, however, Ukraine ignores these arguments, said the Minister of energy Alexander Novak in the conversation in the " News on the first day of the weekend with Sergey Brilev."

Answering the question of whether there had been in negotiations of the Russian Federation and Ukraine, the argument "if you don't want to pay for delivery of the DNR and LC, then you de facto acknowledge that they are already out of Ukraine, "Novak said:" We have, without doubt, have used such arguments. Our colleagues in the framework of negotiations on energy refused to discuss in General the situation of political relations in Ukraine,

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