The Ukrainian government wants on Wednesday, 18 June, to consider the draft law on the introduction of a state of emergency in the energy sector, said the Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk.

on the first day of the week Yatsenyuk has ordered to prepare a draft law on introduction of state of emergency in the energy sector. He did it the once Gazprom has switched to a prepayment for gas deliveries to Ukraine because of debts of Kyiv. Gazprom assured that the introduction of pre-payment will not affect gas deliveries from Russia to the European Union. The head of the Ministry of energy of Ukraine Yuriy Prodan said that gas supplies from Russia to Ukraine was reduced to zero. On Tuesday in the government of Ukraine was created energy crisis headquarters.

" Tomorrow the Government will consider the draft law on state of emergency in the energy sector. We must be ready to the most difficult circumstances. For this reason, the procedure for introducing the state of emergency in the energy market, monitoring mechanisms, mechanisms for energy efficiency must be reflected in the law. The government must have levers of influence on the energy sector of the country ", - noticed Yatsenyuk During his speech in the Verkhovna Rada.

according to the information of " Gazprom ", the arrears of the Ukrainian Naftogaz to Gazprom already exceeds 4, 4 billion dollars, of them 1, 4 billion in the last year. The Russian Company also filed a claim in the Stockholm international arbitration court with a claim to " Naftogaz ".

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