Ukrainian Naftogaz connects the suspension of gas supplies from Hungary with Russian Gazprom.
" Stop happened a few days After the visit of the authorized Gazprom in Hungary and for a couple of hours before the next round of tripartite talks Ukraine-Russia-EU. This decision was taken by the Hungarian authorities After the meeting, the Chairman of the Board of Gazprom Alexey Miller and Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orban, which took place on the first day of the week, according to the report of the organization, which is quoted by RIA " Novosti ". Remember, Naftogaz has a contract with private companies in Western Europe for the production and delivery of gas to Ukraine via Hungary. Oposlya, as FGSZ stopped providing transit facilities to these companies, the flow of gas from Hungary to Ukraine stopped. In March 2013, the Ukraine and Hungary came to an agreement on gas supplies to the Ukrainian market of up to 6, 1 billion cubic meters of gas per year (16, 6 million cubic meters of gas per day). It was further stipulated that the system is available only in discontinuous mode depending on the current commercial and technical conditions. Add that on 8 September, the Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk promised that his government will be completely independent of gas from Russia through 5 years. According to him, Ukraine is greatly increased purchases of gas from the EU through Poland, Hungary and Slovakia, and due to this decreased purchases from Russia. September 9, Ukrtransgaz said that the Ukrainian gas storage facilities are filled to 50, 05%, on their balance is 16 billion cubic meters of gas.

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