The head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko in telephone consultations with German Chancellor Angela Merkel coordinated position For the subsequent discussion of the gas issue with Russia, notified on the Internet office of the Ukrainian President on Thursday.

" the head of Ukrainian and German Chancellor discussed the results of the consultations in Ukraine, Russia and the EU on gas and coordinated position to continue discussions on this issue on October 29, according to the report.

The leader of the countries discussed the situation in the Donbass, for example, the execution state of the Minsk Protocol and Minsk Memorandum yesterday, the European Council held in Brussels on 23-24 October.

before Ukraine was planning to start the heating season this year November, but later decided to start with this environment, October 22.

in mid-June, Russia stopped direct gas supplies to Ukraine because of the billions of dollars of debt Kiev. Currently, Ukraine receives gas only in reverse from Europe. The issue with winter gas supplies from Russia to date has not been solved.

Ukraine has said that for the smooth passage of winter she will need 4 billion cubic meters of gas from Russia. For their payment have 1, 6 billion dollars, which in Kyiv.

The parties try to resolve the gas dispute in the format of tripartite negotiations with the participation of the European Commission, but as long as they are ineffective. The next tripartite meeting was held on Tuesday in Brussels, again, did not bring progress. The possible signing of agreements deferred for a week, until October 29.

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