Ukraine lacks about 4-5 billion cubic meters of gas, in order to successfully survive the winter, said Tuesday the Minister of energy and coal industry Yuriy Sold at a press conference in Kyiv.

As the Minister said, for standard during the heating season need about 32 billion cubic meters of gas. This volume will be required for the heating season from September to March.

" are lacking about 4-5 billion cubic meters of gas to pass the winter, " said Sold.

Also Sold said that from October to March, Kyiv plans to reverse to get 5, 9 billion cubic meters of gas and domestic gas production from October to March will be about 10 billion cubic meters.

in mid-June, Gazprom translated Ukrainian state-owned company Naftogaz of prepayment due to chronic non-payments and a large debt At the moment of time of about 5, 3 billion dollars. Now in the Ukrainian gas transport system are only transit volumes destined for Europe. As long as transit is part of the contract, however, and Gazprom, and the Commission did not rule out any issues in the winter, when Ukraine will spend accumulated in its own storage resources.

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