Maria Knyazeva. Ukraine could do for the winter needs the accumulation of gas, and also among them To ensure transit from Russia to the European Union, if there was launched a so-called Virtual reverse, said on Thursday reporters the head of the Ukrainian energy Ministry Yuriy Prodan.

Virtual reverse involves buying gas at European counterpart, and then selecting the same volume of Russian " blue fuel " from the transit destined For the relevant counterparties in the EU. Ukraine to winter ought to accumulate in their own underground storage 18-20 billion cubic meters of gas, without Russian fuel is impossible. However, Gazprom stopped supplying gas to Ukraine because of its multi-billion debts.

" To gain the necessary number of gas, we need today to work according to European rules. For this purpose must be appropriate to the Treaty on accession to the European market - as amended) law of the European Union, and Then, naturally, we will be able to work in the notion of Virtual reverse. Then all the necessary volumes can be obtained from Europe, regardless of physical ability pipelines that today we blocks, for example, " Gazprom ", said Sold.

yesterday he said that gas supplies to Ukraine from Europe in physical reverse decreased, and linked it with the actions of " Gazprom ". Then was: the fact that Hungary has increased the pumping of gas into its storage underground. In addition to Hungary, currently Ukraine gets to reverse the gas from Poland.

" Traders on the European market a sufficient number who have the ability to offer certain volumes. However, physical reverse Vsplyvaet the limitation related to the section of the pipeline, " said Sold.

The head of " Gazprom " Alexei Miller said that European suppliers are able to provide physical reverse gas to Ukraine: according to him, we can talk about the annular reverse - pipes on the border Sokolovaya and gas from Russia chasing around. Miller called this scheme poliferation reverse. At the same time, Miller said that and Virtual reverse, which is trying to come to a common opinion Kyiv, the consideration from the perspective of legality.

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