If Kiev to 7 may not pay for the delivered Ukraine in April, gas, may 16, Gazprom will put the country preliminary bill for the export of blue fuel in June, said the energy Minister of Russia Alexander Novak.
" That is, If 7 may not occur payment for the gas supplied in April, may 16, Gazprom will issue a proforma invoice for the supply of gas in June. Accordingly, until may 31, the Ukrainian side will be able to pay this account, and then the volume of gas which will be delivered in June for the prepayment will be exactly in the volume paid before may 31, " said He, reports RIA " Novosti ". He explained that " This does not mean that the Russian Federation or Gazprom limit gas supply. To use the term incorrectly. Gazprom fulfilled its contractual obligations in accordance with the contract of 2009, which confirmed Kyiv. Thus from June 1, can, it is possible that Gazprom will supply gas to the amount that will be prepaid by the Ukrainian side. This is not the limit, for delivery in the volume of purchased gas." Before Novak called circumstances with the pumping of gas into Ukrainian underground storage critical, calling on Brussels and Kyiv to take urgent measures to resolve it. It was a once in the last working day of the week during the tripartite consultations in the capital of Poland, the Minister of energy and coal industry of Ukraine Yuriy Prodan said that the Ukrainian side does not guarantee downloads in summer necessary volume of gas in UGS. The official representative of Gazprom Sergei Kupriyanov said that Ukraine's debt on payments for gas from Russia on April 30, is 3, 492 billion. In the beginning of winter 2013, That is, even before the change of power in Kiev, Ukraine was provided with discount (price 268, 5 dollars per thousand cubic meters). Gazprom from April 1 cancelled the discount and increased the price to 385 5 dollar as Kyiv, regardless of December arrangements, paid the debt and current supplies. 3 April happened announced the cancellation and discounts on Kharkiv contracts 2010, which was given in exchange for an extension of stay of the black sea fleet in Crimea, and the price rose to $ 485.

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