To supply the needs of Ukraine in Gaza in the winter will be able only Gazprom, the reverse will not help, said the head of Ministry of energy of Russia Alexander Novak.
data about this RIA " Novosti ".
before a source close to the EU leadership, said that in winter Ukraine will need to purchase Gas from Russia, because technically all the needs of the country in blue fuel does not have the ability to be covered by the supply of the reverse from EU countries. According to " Ukrtransgaz ", Ukraine on the 1st day of supplies in three months has imported 50, 8 million cubic meters of gas from Russia. On the first day of the week in "Ukrtransgaz" said that Ukraine started to import natural Gas through the territory of Poland. In addition, the Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk said that Kyiv wants to connect to the newly created Poland, Romania, Hungary and Slovakia the energy system the transmission of gas According to head the Ministry of energy of Ukraine Volodymyr Demchyshyn, Kiev considers it possible that the winter of 2016-2017 will be able to go without buying gas from Russia. At the end of September, Naftogaz released a report which said that Ukraine in fact lost their critical dependence on gas supplies from Russia. Gas purchased by Ukraine in the European Union, only from a formal point of view is " European ", but in fact it's the same Gas from Russia, which traders resell the EU to Kiev. According to the Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, the Gas that Ukraine receives reverse gas supplies is more expensive than the cost to consumers by 20?30% than Russian. Europe is actively spends the accumulation of gas from its underground storage facilities due to restrictions on Russian gas supplies and reverse-flow gas supplies to Ukraine.

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