MOSCOW, APR 4, - RIA Novosti/Prime. Ukraine, despite the reduction in gas consumption from Russia, today can not do without him, said energy Minister Alexander Novak.

"The Ukrainian economy today can not do without gas from Russia ", - he said in the interview program.

"Buy Russian gas, pumping it into underground gas storage means indirectly in General, a reliable supply of Europe. This is our market, and we have preserved. So in the winter, this market provides a reliable gas, it is necessary at the present time, in the summer, to upload it

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