Crimea was not negotiating on gas supplies to Ukraine, said Aksenov

Crimea was not negotiating on gas supply in area of Ukraine, this issue can be considered only at the level of the Russian government, said the Acting head of Crimea Sergey Aksenov on the first day of the week correspondents.

first, according to media reports, the head of the Kherson regional state administration Yuriy Odarchenko said that Ukraine plans to buy gas for the winter 2014-2015 from Crimea.

" own gas we are not going to lose. However, if the Crimea will be able to sell, and this will be agreed with Gazprom and the Russian government, can and will supply gas in Kherson region (border with the Crimea region of Ukraine), the life will show, but only on terms of sale. No grants will not, doubt no, " said Aksenov message Odarchenko.

Acting head of the Crimean added that he did not know about any agreements on the possible supply of the Crimean gas and does not want to explain the thoughts that " daily have different Ukrainian officials ".

" I am not going to clarify, has the ability to be, he is somewhere with someone agreed, personally I hear about this for the first time, " said Aksenov. However, he assured that today the Crimea is not dependent on Ukraine and their own self at the expense of own production from its fields, which develops the Crimean company " Chernomorneftegaz ".

Crimea consumes in a year 1, 2 billion cubic meters of gas. PJSC " Chernomorneftegaz ", supplying the inhabitants of the Peninsula gas, to March 17, belonged to the " Naftogaz of Ukraine ", but after the referendum on joining the Crimea to Russia the enterprise was nationalized. Now it functions as the Crimean Republican enterprise (PKK) " Chernomorneftegaz ".


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