Energy Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Demchyshyn appealed to the EU with a wish to help to fill the storage gas. According to the Minister, it will be advantageous to first Europe.
Vladimir Demchyshyn proposed a method to minimize the risks of gas transit through Ukraine. The Minister of energy offers Europeans to personally pay for the pumping Russian gas to Ukrainian store, so that in case of force majeure ensure a continuous supply. With all this Ukrainian official has announced that it will be enough to pump in store 14-15 billion cubic meters of gas, while the Europeans insist on 20 billion
"The Commission is developing a scenario of events in the worst-case. And all costs puts on us. We are ready to commit in the baseline scenario, and the cost of the worst case scenario, you may need to divide" - quoted by the Ukrainian Minister of The Wall Street Journal.
Among other things Demchyshyn announced that Ukraine considers the option of disabling territories DND and LNR from the gas supply. According to the Minister, this decision may be associated with debt. "Kiev can be solved off from the gas supply area of the self-proclaimed DND and LNR, because the regional distribution of the company paid in the period since last August, exclusively 20% of the supply," says the article.
As we were informed Days.Roux, long before the beginning of the winter heating season in Gazprom announced fears relatively gas transit through Ukraine. According to the head of Russian energy holding Alexei Miller, Ukraine will continue to pose a threat to the transit of gas to Europe. To completely remove these risks will only be possible after the implementation of the project "Turkish stream.
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