The parties submitted for the approval of their governments, the Protocol on gas supplies to Ukraine that was initialed yesterday in Brussels,-informs the press service of the EU delegation in Ukraine on the first day of the weekend. "at the meeting, chaired by Vice-President of the European Commission for energy Union Maros Sefcovic, was attended by Commissioners of the European Commission, Ukraine and Russia. They initialed a legally binding Protocol and gave it to their governments for approval, " - said in the report. in the night of Saturday, the Plenipotentiaries of Russia, Ukraine and the European Commission initialed a Protocol on gas supplies to Ukraine and its transit in the coming winter. New winter package will run from 1 October of the current year until the end of March 2016, and provides for the purchase by Ukraine in the Russian Federation in October 2 billion cubic meters of gas for injection into underground storage facilities, the funds of European financial institutions in the amount of five hundred million dollars will be allocated to "Naftogaz" to the end of the year. The final Protocol is expected to be signed in the near future. yesterday the head of Ministry of Ukraine Volodymyr demchyshyn on the results of the negotiations explained that the Protocol was only initialed because it required to study lawyers, he expects the document will be signed no later than a week Later.