The head of the Ukrainian Ministry of energy Vladimir Demchyshyn said that Kiev does not agree with the size provided by Moscow discounts on gas in the 3rd quarter and wishes to discuss this matter with the Minister of energy of Russia Alexander Novak.
Demchyshyn Also said that Ukraine shall submit for techstroke the question of the discount rate Russia for gas. Answering the question whether the Ukrainian side discount, demchyshyn said: "of course, discuss ", RIA " Novosti ".
However, he did not want to specify acceptable for Ukraine the price of gas from Russia in the 3rd quarter." I cannot put a number to negotiations and proposals we announced the European Commission, " said Demchyshyn, who had already met before in Vienna Tuesday, the commissioners of the EC in the bilateral format. Along with this, Russian energy Minister Alexander Novak at the beginning of tripartite talks said that Moscow is not going to agree with Ukraine on the size of discounts given to it on the gas for the third quarter. On the first day of the week, the Russian government officially obnarodowanniye offered for the account of customs duty gas discount for Ukraine in the third quarter. After that, Gazprom sent to the NJSC "Naftogaz of Ukraine" offer to sign a supplementary agreement to the existing contract of sale and purchase of natural gas in 2009-2019. Medvedev also on the first day of the week called the final price of gas for Ukraine. According to him, Russia will not be able to save a discount in the same amount and the final cost will be $ 247 dollars for 1 thousand Cubic meters. Appropriate calculations were made after the Ukrainian side has officially appealed to Russia with a request to save gas discount. In addition, Novak confirmed holding a trilateral meeting on gas for Ukraine on June 30.

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