Head Petro Poroshenko promised the citizens of Ukraine in the beginning of winter, that the state will become gas and heat.

" Ukraine will be with gas and heat is the result of yesterday's agreements in Milan ", - said in a statement released microblogging Petro Poroshenko on Twitter.


The same Poroshenko said today in an interview to Ukrainian TV channels. As reported, Poroshenko said that the results of negotiations with the Russian side until 31 March 2015 decided to fix the " winter " gas price of $385 per thousand cubic meters.

Petro Poroshenko, Ukraine may apply funds from the IMF and international financial institutions to cover the deficit of funds for the purchase of gas from Russia.

in the previous tripartite Ministerial talks on September 26, Russia, Ukraine and the EU discussed the " winter plan ", designed for the period until the end of March. He foresaw that Kyiv this year will repay 3, $ 1 billion debt for gas from Russia, and Gazprom will supply Ukraine 5 billion cubic meters of gas At the prepayment price 385 dollars per thousand cubic meters. Russia insisted that $ 2 billion of debt was repaid already before delivery.

later, the Russian Federation reduced the requirement for the first tranche debt for gas to 1, 451 billion (the rest of 3, $ 1 billion - before the New year), and Ukraine said that will survive the winter and 4 billion cubic meters of additional gas from Russia. In addition, Kyiv wants to begin to repay the debt only after the resumption of gas supplies and to stretch the payment 3, $ 1 billion to March inclusive.

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