"Naftogaz of Ukraine" hopes that before the end of September the signing of a new gas contract with Russia, which will allow Kiev to pay for gas at market prices, said the head of the organization Andrey Kobelev. "according to our expectations, we will try until the end of September to sign a new contract, which will enable us to bring non-market price of the old contract with "Gazprom" to the max to market levels, "said Korolev, reports RIA" Novosti ". according to him, the Ukrainian side is not able to sound as long as the proposed figures for the dialogue with Russia is not over yet. Before Thursday, the head of the Ministry of energy and coal industry of Ukraine Volodymyr demchyshyn said that the market value of Russian gas should not exceed 230 dollars for 1 thousand Cubic meters, and hopes to come to a common understanding with Gazprom on the issue. However, in the last month of summer it was claimed that the cost of procurement "Naftogaz of Ukraine" European gas in the 2nd quarter was 11% higher than the price of gas purchases in Russia. Gazprom supplied gas to Ukraine at a price of 247, 18 dollars for 1 thousand Cubic meters. At the same time the weighted average cost of gas imports from Europe including the transportation is 275 dollars for 1 thousand Cubic meters. On Wednesday, the head of Gazprom Alexey Miller said that all the important issues of bilateral agreements with Ukraine on winter package, agreed. At the same time, the Ministry ruled out the possibility of providing Ukraine with additional discounts on gas. The day before Demchyshyn said Kyiv expects negotiations on gas in the near future and hopes to reach a decision on a "winter package" for this or next week. The Russian Federation and the European Commission on the last working day of the week in Vienna negotiations agreed on the "winter package" of gas supplies to Ukraine, which predusmatrivaet as providing discounts for two quarters from Russia and securing payment of pumping gas into Ukrainian underground storage facilities from the EC.