Ukraine in view of the difficult situation of natural resources in the country have already appealed to the selection of gas from underground storage. According to estimates of the Russian side, for the normal passage of the winter season Ukraine should have 18-20 billion cubic meters of gas.

There is information that the Ukrainian side has already October 20, turned to the development of previously conserved resources. According to the operative data of the company "Ukrtransgaz" power selected from underground storages (UGS), 10,81 million cubic meters of gas, There is information that on October 21 in the storage facilities of Ukraine was 16,734 billion cubic meters of gas. With all of this, according to reliable information, Gazprom, about 5 billion cubic meters of gas in Ukrainian underground storage facilities is the so-called "buffer" gas, which cannot be used, informs RIA Novosti. However apparently the approach of the great winter forced the Kiev authorities to resort to a hard action to somehow survive the impending frost.

Assessment of the Russian side, for the normal passage of the winter heating season, which in the current quarter will begin from November, Ukraine should have its own natural gas storage facilities 18-20 billion cubic meters of gas. As Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for energy, gц?nther Oettinger said that Ukraine needs another 10-12 billion cubic meters of gas for the winter.

Note that Kiev long tormented by the question of passage of the cruel winter cold. Previously, Melbourne Herald sun wrote that the inhabitants of Ukraine, which promise a very cold winter, in a panic, I want to prepare for the cold. Ordinary gentlemen quite excited about the cold weather and almost no hope to get for heating the Russian gas. Citizens of countries that are desperate to get gas start massively procured heaters and get firewood. As noted by some inhabitants of the powers it is their only way to stay warm this winter. Probably similar actions of the inhabitants of Ukraine and the decision of Kyiv for the study of underground storage due to the fact that the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin stated that Russia will not deliver Kiev gas in debt.
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