The Ukrainian government has spent $ 1 billion on gas Supply and electricity in the Donbass, they are not paid, said on Thursday the country's Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk.

"maybe someone forgot that we have spent 1 billion on gas Supply and electricity to the site of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, and got back zero. There accounts are not paid, but that citizens are not frozen, we should do it, because There are Ukrainian citizens ", - said Yatsenyuk during the meeting of the national tripartite social and economic Council.

The Prime Minister has supplemented his words by the fact that the Government At this time has paid out pensions to the residents of Donbas in the amount of fifteen billion hryvnia (about 682 million), while these territories do not pay taxes to Kiev.

The issue of gas supplies in the Donbass and its payment has become another stumbling block in the relations between "Gazprom" and " Naftogaz ". Russia February 19, began Supplying gas to the South-East of Ukraine through gas metering station "Prokhorovka" and "Platovo" on the borders of Rostov, Luhansk and Donetsk regions. Deliveries were initiated after Kiev stopped gas supplies to the region, citing the damage to the pipelines at the end of hostilities.

"Gazprom" informs that the supply of gas to the South-East of Ukraine in accordance with the contract with " Naftogaz ", respectively, and pay for them have Ukrainian state. Ukraine refuses to do, pointing to the inability to control both the fact of supply and their volumes.

at the same time, the official Kiev says that continues independent, i.e. not dependent on Gazprom's gas Supplies to South-East of Ukraine. For example, on 10 April, Minister of energy of Ukraine Volodymyr Demchyshyn said that Ukraine for 7 months from September 2014 to March 2015 - put in the Donbass 1, 5 billion cubic meters of gas for a total of 9 billion USD and these Supplies until now not paid.

sections: Politics