Ukraine confirms the recovery of Russian imports of natural gas, said at a press conference the head of the Ministry of energy and coal industry Volodymyr demchyshyn.
"Today we started to pump gas from Russia ", - he said, reports news Agency.



Before that, the head of Gazprom Alexey Miller said that Russian gas deliveries to Ukraine resumed after a three-month break. On the last working day of the week in the organization "Naftogaz of Ukraine" told that it had sent Russia an advance payment for gas supplies and said he plans to buy 2 billion cubic meters of "blue fuel" in October. At the end of September, Naftogaz released a report which said that Ukraine in fact lost their critical dependence on gas supplies from Russia. However, a source close to the EU leadership, said that in winter Ukraine will need to purchase gas from Russia, because technically all the needs of the country in blue fuel does not have the ability to be covered by the supply of the reverse from EU countries.

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