Ukrtransgas, the Ukrainian gas transportation system operator, for the previous day on 25 November 2015 transported 205, 9 million cubic meters of gas from Russia to the European Union in Accordance with the application, according to a report of " Naftogaz ".

Ukraine November 25, chose the pre-paid volumes of gas from Russia, Thursday from Russia comes only a transit gas. The head of "Gazprom" Alexey Miller have said before, that new payment is not received, as well as applications for the production and delivery of gas, for this reason, gas supplies from Russia to stop new payments.

Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk said that "Naftogaz of Ukraine" stopped gas purchase from Russia on behalf of the government. The Ukrainian side explained its decision to abandon gas purchases from Russia best price conditions of imports from Europe. At the same time Ukraine did not exclude that if necessary the country would return to purchasing gas from Russia.

in the period from October 2015 to end March 2016, "Gazprom" and "Naftogaz" interact on the basis of the winter gas package, initialed by Russia, Ukraine and the EC on 25 September. It provides for compulsory purchase of "Naftogaz" from "Gazprom" on gas credit five hundred million dollars, raised through the EC. This commitment Ukraine has fulfilled by transferring Gazprom 542 million dollars in payment.

according to operational data " Ukrtransgaz ", in the period from 12 October to 24 November 2015, Naftogaz bought from Gazprom 2, 365 billion cubic meters of gas. This amount corresponds to the amount of 537, 763 million dollars. Ukrainian Firm publishes its statistics with a delay of two days.

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