Because of a dispute With Russia on the transit pumping of gas Ukraine expects a hard winter. About it said the Commissioner President Vladimir Zelensky in the government Andriy Gerus, the broadcast of the briefing was led by the TV channel " OUR ". "we have a situation where we have lower accumulation of coal in storage, and we had, shall we say, difficult and heated debate With the companies of thermal generation, such as large companies," said Gerus, explaining the preparation of Kiev for the winter period. according to his statement, the Ukrainian authorities are pushing that heat-generating companies cannot be applied to the accumulation of coal in the warehouses as a way of blackmail to increase rates. "Such stories in Ukraine have already occurred, and We wished this never repeated, and the organization kept a sufficient accumulation of coal in storage, yesterday the most difficult of winter, when We have certain discussions With Gazprom on the transit pumping gas," said Commissioner Zelensky. The uncertainty in the transit of natural gas can affect the circumstances of the gas market in the country, warned Gerus. Kiev halted gas purchases from the Russian capital in November 2015. Since then, he uploads in storage fuel purchased under reverse in the European Union, most of them in Slovakia, Hungary and Poland. Existing contracts for production and delivery and transit of gas from Russia via Ukraine expire at the end of 2019. As long as the certainty of their coming there. Question about the new agreement being discussed at the tripartite meeting of Russia, Ukraine and the European Commission, the latter was held in Brussels in January. the head of the Ministry of energy of Russia Alexander Novak in June after negotiations With the Vice-President of the European Commission on energosoiuz maroе║ е═efд█oviд█ said that the Russian Federation is ready to extend on current terms of the contract for gas transit through Ukraine and to start gas supplies to the country. While Novak called the litigation "Gazprom" and "Naftogaz" one of the key points for reaching agreements of Russia and Ukraine on gas. <span style="color:darkgray