Kiev has already received over 10 Applications for production and delivery of gas from Europe at the European Bank for restoration and development credit in 300 million dollars, said the head of the Ukrainian Naftogaz Andrey Kobelev.
"A lot of applications, if I am not mistaken, Applications have more than ten, and the final list will be known, as I suppose, for one to two weeks ", - said Korolev, RIA " Novosti ".
He said that Ukraine plans " to spend this year, all 300 million dollars."" We cannot predict what organizations and what price will give, We hope that this price will more competitive. But this tender, which I do not presume to predict, especially as It passes under the rules of the EBRD, which are extremely hard from the position qualifications and screening of potential candidates: all organisations who work with us, can get the tender ", - said the Korolev. According to his statement, one of the requirements of this tender is that organizations that take part in it, their share or shares their parent organizations are required to trade on public exchanges. Thus KOBOLEV expects the participation of Gazprom in the tender." Gazprom is trading on the exchange, But I think that "Gazprom" in the tender to participate will not be, because the tender is constructed so that the gas can be acquired only on the Western border, and so far We have proposals from "Gazprom" to buy gas on the Western border still have never received and do not expect that it will be received, " - said Kobolyev. He has supplemented his words by the fact that the European organization associated with Gazprom, Applications for participation in the tender until filed. On October 23, Ukraine and the EBRD signed an agreement on allocation of 300 million dollars for the purchase of gas from the EU. We emphasize that the gas purchased by Ukraine in the European Union, only from a formal point of view is " European ", but in fact it's the same gas from Russia, which traders resell the EU to Kiev. On 27 October the head of the Ministry of energy of Ukraine Volodymyr Demchyshyn has acknowledged that his country till the end of the year will not be able to accumulate in underground storages need for the winter season to 19 billion cubic meters of blue fuel. On 12 October gas supplies from Russia to Ukraine were resumed after a three-month break. At the same time, Gazprom said that Naftogaz transferred $ 234 million pre-payment of the promised five hundred million dollars. Along with this, Ukraine began massive deforestation for firewood, as well as among them protected. Trees are felled even in the region of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. In Kiev, now about 165 homes still remain without heat.

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