De facto Deputy Prime Minister - Minister of regional development, construction and housing and utilities Volodymyr Groysman ordered the energy Ministry and other ministries to create a plan of action for maintaining a stable passing Ukraine heating season without gas from Russia. About this he said during the meeting of the " energy crisis headquarters " of June 21, reports news Agency journalist.
According to the Groisman, the plan envisages implementation of a complex of measures, for example, energy efficiency, substitution of natural gas, its alternative supplies and So on," Ensuring stable operation of fuel and energy complex, the most in autumn-winter period - the task given to the Ministers under their personal responsibility ", - said the de facto Deputy Prime Minister.

recall that on June 16, Gazprom stopped supplying gas to Ukraine, has translated Kyiv on prepaid and addressed to the Stockholm arbitration court with the claim to " Naftogaz of Ukraine " about collecting of debts in the amount of $4, 5 billion for supplied but unpaid gas." Naftogaz of Ukraine " filed a counter-claim, demanding to revise the current agreement, to establish a fair and market " price for gas, and to pay Gazprom $6 billion " overpayment " for gas from 2010. The government of Ukraine has prepared a draft law on introducing the state of emergency in the energy sector, but it is still obliged to accept the Parliament, which decides when and under what conditions the state of emergency will be declared. What exactly " emergency energy position will be expressed - as long as unknown.

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