The head of the Ministry of energy And coal industry of Ukraine Volodymyr Demchyshyn said about the readiness of his Department for the upcoming heating season.
"We are ready for the heating season, And We don't expect a warm winter. We understand the demand And supply in detail. And We realize that the available resources, means And stockpiling At the moment is to get through this heating season without question, "said demchyshyn, reports RIA" Novosti ".
Also Demchyshyn said that Kiev hopes to soon obtain credit funds to purchase 2 billion cubic meters of gas for the accumulation of reserves in underground storage facilities. Before the country's Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said that for the autumn-winter period it is necessary to accumulate a positive outcome 7 million tons of coal, at negative eleven million tons. This Yatsenyuk criticized the prosecution of the leadership of the Ministry of energy And coal industry of the country in the disruption of the preparation for the heating season, as well as among them for the purchase of coal for power plants. On Wednesday, the head of Gazprom Alexey Miller said that all the important issues of bilateral agreements with Ukraine on winter package, agreed. At the same time, the Ministry ruled out the possibility of providing Ukraine with additional discounts on gas. The day before Demchyshyn said Kyiv expects dialogues on Gaza soon And hopes to reach a decision on a "winter package" for this or next week. The Russian Federation And the European Commission on the last working day of the week in Vienna negotiations agreed on the "winter package" of gas supplies to Ukraine, which predusmatrivaet as providing discounts for two quarters from Russia And securing payment of pumping gas into Ukrainian underground storage facilities from the EC.

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