Ukraine, Like a dog, 25 years kept on a leash gas, said the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, speaking about the need for increasing domestic production of gas in the process of opening of new gas wells in the Lviv region. "Independence is an important component - something that we didn't have 25 years of energy Independence. 25 years old Ukraine, Like a dog, kept on the gas a leash. No matter what slogans came to power, the only thing they had said - about How to build the scheme of gas supplies from Russia. And now we have done everything in their power to diversify sources of energy supplies " - sends word Poroshenko UNIAN. "We will provide itself with gas from Europe, And we will do the energy complex of the country With a zero deficit. Must be financial sense to look for Ukrainian gas. Today we make a priority to run the Ukrainian gas production is also not monopolizing, and support honest And real investors, " he said. Ukraine refused from the import of gas from Russia, but buying reverse gas from European partners, which, really, is the same Russian gas. So, at the end of October it was announced that almost the biggest energy companies of Europe, the French Engie, entered the Ukrainian market And will launch direct gas supplies to Ukrainian consumers. On 20 October in Ukraine, told about record-high gas imports from Europe. On 1 October the head of the Ministry of energy of Russia Alexander Novak said that the Ukrainian authorities are hoping for a warm winter And you're not supposed to buy gas from Russia. Wrote print edition OPINION, Ukraine has never been so energy dependent country.