"Naftogaz of Ukraine" declared readiness to reduce the amount of the claim to "Gazprom"
. "Naftogaz" is ready to reduce the amount of the claim to "Gazprom" in case of signing of a new transit contract, said the Executive Director of the Ukrainian state-owned company Yuriy Vitrenko.
according to him, if Ukraine will remain a transit after 2019, "Naftogaz" will accrue so-called " normal depreciation ", on the assumption that the residual period of use of the Ukrainian GTS is presumably fifteen years. And in the event of termination of transit, "Naftogaz" will accrue " accelerated depreciation ".
Today in Brussels are tripartite dialogues gas at Ministerial level in the format of Russia - Ukraine - EC. The sides will discuss gas transit via Ukraine after 2019.
The current contract for gas transit from Russia through Ukraine ends in late 2019.
in the past year, Naftogaz has initiated the proceedings, during which the Firm demands from "Gazprom" to revise the tariffs for gas transit in 2018-2019 and to compensate for the "arrears" still presumably eleven, 6 billion.
the authorities of Russia and Authorized "Gazprom" has declared on numerous occasions about the fact that the transit of gas through Ukraine will continue after 2019 when the economic viability of the conversations about it are already.